William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! is the hardest book you’re likely to find on a high-school reading list. In the novel, different people in a Mississippi town recall the legacy of a mysterious plantation owner in dense, convoluted prose. Vanessa Baish, who teaches composition to college students, told us how a head-on collision with the book […]
Roger Housden is an Englishman living in America who writes poetry and books on spiritual topics. One rainy day, while in London on business, Housden wandered into the National Gallery. He was basically just killing time when he stumbled onto something utterly transforming, a self-portrait by Rembrandt.