Education

It's no secret that some summer reading books are better than others. Over the years, I've developed a few hard-and-fast rules to sort...

It's no coincidence that when America decided Latin was too "old fashioned," the humanities stopped producing great minds.

Something has felt instinctively "off" about society's relationship with technology for a long time. I tried (and failed) to delete...

Hello wonderful Vocabbett readers, Ever since launching Vocabbett Annotated Classics , which have been selling wonderfully, I've been...

The moment I began annotating classic novels, people started asking, "Why don't you do Shakespeare?" "It's been done!" I'd reply.

You know that book you've always wanted to read, but haven't yet gotten around to? For many of us, that book is a classic, but we shy...

'Great American novel' or 'worst school book ever'? Having recently annotated 'The Great Gatsby' for Vocabbett Classics, I'm here to say...

This book has been in the making for 10+ years, if not 3,000. In a way, you could say The Iliad is my odyssey!

I have little patience for poets. More often than not, my attitude towards this admirable artistic medium runs more along the lines of,...