In Praise of Poetry and Form

In Praise of Poetry and Form

The Great Game: Essays on Poetics  By Amit Majmudar.  Acre Books, 2024. Paperback, 288 pages, $18. Reviewed by Steven Knepper. Literature, Amit Majmudar warns, must never plod: “Plodding prose, plodding thought, rhythmless lifeless stuff you can’t step to: that’s...
Solzhenitsyn and the Spirituality of Self-Limitation

Solzhenitsyn and the Spirituality of Self-Limitation

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  Edited by Ignat Solzhenitsyn. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 228 pages, $28. Reviewed by William Scott. The eighth title to appear in Notre Dame Press’s “Center for...
Thales College Essay Contest Winners

Thales College Essay Contest Winners

Thales College, a liberal arts and professional education institution based in Raleigh, North Carolina, hosted an international essay contest for high school students. In line with its tradition of publishing rising thinkers alongside established humane voices, The...
Thales College Essay Contest Winners

Individualism for the Greater Good

Thales Essay Contest: First Place By Alexander Luna. One of the great things about Americans is their ability to overcome great obstacles. This nation was founded by the union of thirteen squabbling colonies, who, with one of the most ragtag armies in history,...
Thales College Essay Contest Winners

Me to We: Changing the I-llusion

Thales Essay Contest: Second Place By Evie Lee. Walk into any modern coffee shop and you’ll see dozens of people, each in private bubbles of headphones and laptops, together yet completely alone. The carefully choreographed distance between strangers isn’t...