Putting Our Trust in Bashō the Pilgrim
Early in Bashō’s collection of travel sketches The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he writes, As I was plodding […]
Convivium
Han Kang, the Language of Nature and the Nature of Language
[Editor’s note: Bring your imagination and an appetite for big, big questions in this seminar on two books by Han
Paris on the Brain: What We’re Reading and Watching Now
At Classical Pursuits we’ve got Paris on the brain as we prepare for our two 2026 tours: They Came to
A Subject Bigger Than Itself: The Sound and the Fury
One of the literary programs at my library is what we call Author Studies, where we read all or a
Through a Glass, Darkly, with Film Noir
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony
The Symphony: Listening to History
A seminar series on the evolution of the symphony parallels a study of European history from the start of the
Ulysses Can Change Your Life
[Editor’s note: Classical Pursuits was extraordinarily fortunate to have the late Mike Groden (1947–2021) lead Ulysses seminars at Toronto Pursuits
Seeing WWI Poetry Anew
What happens when large numbers of literate soldiers are “plunged into inhumane conditions?” (1) World War I was the first
The Odyssey of a Sentence: Nine Ways Homer Changes in Translation
New English translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey appear with notable regularity. For the general reader, it’s natural to ask: are they really all that different? And more importantly, do those differences matter?
The answer is: yes—and no.
Guest Blog, Toronto Pursuits
A Dilemma a Day Keeps Nihilism Away!
Toronto Pursuits’ “Nixing Nihilism: A Survey of Contemporary Philosophy” will serve up a “moral dilemma of the day” for seminar participants to consider.