Literature

Can Beauty Really Save the World?

What Dostoevsky meant

Jan 24 • The Culturist

The Ancient Greek Warning to the Modern World

The tragic story of Oedipus

Jan 17 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

The Essentials of Ancient Greek Literature

5 must reads (other than Homer)

Jan 14 • The Culturist

How to Awaken Your Imagination

Lessons from The Chronicles of Narnia

Dec 31, 2025 • The Culturist

How to Live Through a Great Decline

Tolkien’s answer for when hope runs out

Dec 20, 2025 • The Culturist

C.S. Lewis's Lesson About Evil

A bus ride from hell...

Dec 10, 2025 • The Culturist and The Ascent

The Hidden Meaning of Harry Potter

A surprisingly familiar tale

Dec 6, 2025 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

How to Defeat Pride

According to Dante's Divine Comedy

Nov 22, 2025 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

The 4 Levels of Reading

How to read a book deeply

Nov 12, 2025 • The Culturist

How to Write a Masterpiece

Lessons from Tolkien's creative process

Nov 8, 2025 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

Short Classics You Can Read in a Weekend

Essential reads under 200 pages

Nov 5, 2025 • The Culturist

Are You Smarter Than a Coal Miner?

The intellectual life of working-class Victorians

Oct 22, 2025 • The Culturist

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