THE POLITICAL FLÂNEUR

On a mystical journey with Italo Calvino, Marco Polo, and Kublai Khan

This is why you should read the classics...

Learning Italo Calvino's Literary Oeuvre

If on a post-modern novel Italo Calvino

The Wisdom of Mr Palomar

On Taste, Sound, and Smell: Calvino's unfinished business

Book Notes: "Marcovaldo" by Italo Calvino

Chekhov: You've gotta laugh or you'd cry!

Walter Benjamin's Oeuvre: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

On Love: Turgenev Style

Turgenev: The End History and the Last Serf: or, A Satirical Sketch of Sherwood Anderson

Overcoming Self-Doubt: Stillness is the Key

Literary Japan: Kōji's Introduction to Japanese Classics

Oscar Wilde on Contradiction: Learning Unintended Lessons Through Art

Meta-cognition: How I Read Bloom and Why