
“I Shall Not Serve” — Joyce & Nigerian Freedom
The Christmas Dinner passage from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — an “unfortunate priest-ridden race.”
“One must have the courage of one’s vocation”— Picasso

The Christmas Dinner passage from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — an “unfortunate priest-ridden race.”

The sharpest observations from the master of English prose — on art, literature, and the responsibilities of the writer.

The best Hazlitt excerpts on the Bard — literary criticism at its finest, from Hamlet to Lear.

The most luminous prose from the revolutionary writer — passages of courage, exile, and the human spirit.

Oscar Wilde on the decline of Fez — a review from 1886 that reads as though written yesterday.