Introduction What would you say to the greatest writer who ever lived, if you could ask him one question no one has ever dared to ask?I’ve wanted to sit down with William Shakespeare for years. But I didn’t fully understand why until this year, when my youngest son left for university. The house grew quiet. And I kept thinking about a father, four hundred … [Read more...] about Shakespeare Imagined Interview: Hamnet, Hamlet, and Grief
William Shakespeare
The Waste Land Explained: What Did T. S. Eliot Mean?
Introduction What was T. S. Eliot really trying to say in The Waste Land?Nearly a century of interpretation has produced familiar answers: postwar disillusionment, spiritual collapse, sexual alienation, cultural fragmentation, loss of faith, and the breakdown of modern civilization.But Eliot himself complicated those explanations. He resisted reducing the … [Read more...] about The Waste Land Explained: What Did T. S. Eliot Mean?