‘What Has Cast Such a Shadow upon You?’ Reading Benito Cereno after the Election

As my students and I discussed Herman Melville‘s “Benito Cereno” the text on Friday, many of them wept.

Persuasion Episode 28: Sad Funerals Are So 2014

Communal Mourning: What Social-Media Grief Says about Us

Rest In Peace, “Amanat”

“How do we grieve for the people we don’t know, have never met, and can never comfort?”