Duke University’s Dr. Thomas Pfau’s lecture on Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov , from UNC Chapel Hill’s study center.

From Bill, Summer, 2015: I read for many reasons: content, tone, the beauty of language, spiritual edification, mental sharpening, simple repose. Thus, you will find things here that…

Flannery O’Connor’s enlightening essay on fiction and “how the creature creates,” from the Noonday Press.

Legendary UNC professor Larry Goldberg lists his essential readings, from classics to light summer reads, nonfiction to drama.

Former Poet Laureate of the United States and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey discusses the power of living in metaphor, in conversation with poems from her Pulitzer-prize winning collection Native Guard.