Living Literature illuminates great books, chapter by chapter. Reading the literature of the past to understand the present, with observations on how we teach literature in the classroom.

Articles about the Living Literature Methodology, teaching literature to bring the past into the present.

Living Literature's Guide to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Living Literature's Guide to A Tale of Two Cities, including chapter-by-chapter guides, additional commentaries, and my personal pictures and videos from London and Paris.

Deep Dives into the settings for books, stories, poems, shows, movies, and songs. Understanding the work's time and place helps us see the familiar in a new light.

Articles on the teaching of humanities and history. "Unsentimental Humanities" is homage to Professor Kevin Dettmar's 2014 article "Dead Poets Society Is a Terrible Defense of the Humanities," which argues that Dead Poet's Society irreparably harmed the profession by sentimentalizing the humanities. Mr. Keating never actually read Robert Frost and owes J. Evans Pritchard, PhD an apology.