About English Lessons

English Lessons is a new blog celebrating writing we love, and illuminating why we love it—and what we can learn from it. Poetry, fiction, editorials; Presidential speeches, classic texts, criticism: English Lessons looks at how words used well can change the way we think about the world around us. 

Recent Posts

• 8/15

  Lesson 21: Gloria Steinem’s Aphorisms; Fish, Power, Love, Bunnies, and Life

• 8/04

  Lesson 20: JSOC-talk; When Less Is More: “For God and country: Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.”

• 7/13

  Lesson 19: RFK; The Language of Atonement, and Classical References

• 7/05

  Lesson 18: Sheryl Sandberg; Can A Speech Teach Ambition?

• 6/28

  Lesson 17: Rockstar Games, Violence, Justice: If It’s Violent, Do We Care If It’s Literature?

• 6/26

  Lesson 16: W.H. Auden; War Talk, and Expectations

• 6/16

  Lesson 15: Fermor; What Does A Soldier Scholar's Prose Look Like?

• 6/08

  Lesson 14: Children’s Literature; The Genius of Go the F*** to Sleep

• 6/03

  Lesson 13: V.S. Naipaul: Does The Sex of The Author Matter?

• 5/30

  Lesson 12: Pericles’ Funeral Oration; On Memorial Day, An Ode to Hearts and Soldiers