Teacher and Author
The Dawn of Everything “began as a diversion from [the authors’] more ‘serious’ academic duties: an experiment, a game almost, in which an anthropologist and archaeologist tried to reconstruct the sort of grand dialogue about human history that was once … Continued
“Do they exist or are they spooks?” Classics professor Coleman Silk’s question is playful, casual. Its ramifications are serious, dire. He is accused of using a racial epithet about two repeat absentees he does not know are African American. Is … Continued
I probably would have read anything that came out by Amor Towles. That his third book was titled The Lincoln Highway made it inescapable. I, who had read about Carl Fisher and the Lincoln Highway, Cy Avery and Route 66, … Continued