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In no particular order, the books that have changed me. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Aleksandr Solzhenutsyn. Read this in AP English. The precision he used to frame the atrocity of Stalinism in the events of one simple day took away my breath. Eventually, I read everything he wrote. Why I was […]
There’s a passage in the acclaimed novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky that has resonated and haunted me for decades. I read the novel in a graduate seminar on political philosophy in 1993. My reaction to this passage fundamentally shifted the way that I viewed God and my own calling, moving away from academia […]
What is art? While growing up in Pittsburgh during the 1970’s and 1980’s, art was seemingly far removed from my everyday life. No one in my family or immediate circle was an artist (that I know of, at least) and we didn’t actively participate in the arts community. Art seemed like something for rich people. […]
