The first time I read Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life,” I ended up on the bathroom floor crying so hard I needed to use my childhood inhaler. Some call it empathy. Some call it effective writing. Some call it the consequences of BookTok, a subgenre of content on TikTok about books and reading. BookTok made...
In this Quick Hits, Mark McClay talks classics, dinner, and vacation. What’s your favorite class to teach? Any Greek or Latin language class. Particularly Greek since that’s my specialty, particularly Homeric Greek. Why did you become a classics professor? It’s just an enthusiasm I developed when I was in undergrad, and I just kind of...
In this Quick Hits, Assistant Professor of Classics Patricia Craig talks children’s literature, Renaissance polyphony, and “Wicked.” What’s your favorite children’s book? I really love the book “Corduroy” which is about a little bear who comes to life and loses a button on his corduroy trousers. It’s a very sweet story. The magical aspect of...
Christina Lambert, assistant professor of English, talks Indian food, literature, and paragliding. If you could meet any author, who would you meet? S. Eliot loved to go out in London for a good dinner and a night at the theater. He’d often write his menu on the back of the playbill. I’d join for an...
Every Hillsdale student should take a classics course because the Greco-Roman world provides us with the guidelines for a life of nobility and glory. As Hillsdale students, however, we are constantly presented with patterns of examples from disciplines as diverse as chemistry, music, and English. Each of us must complete at least two English and...