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Too Good To Be True: How Angels Continue to Inspire

Too Good To Be True: How Angels Continue to Inspire

Ed Simon Considers the Cultural Legacy of These Heavenly Archetypes

By Ed Simon | October 20, 2023

On Drinking, the Devil, and <em>Paradise Lost</em>

On Drinking, the Devil, and Paradise Lost

Ed Simon Searches for Milton's Grave While Getting Blackout Drunk in Pubs

By Ed Simon | August 15, 2023

Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

Ed Simon Asks Us to Reconsider Our Definitions of Good Style

By Ed Simon | April 10, 2023

A History of Demonology is a History of the World

A History of Demonology is a History of the World

Ed Simon Offers a Demonic Poetics

By Ed Simon | February 23, 2022

To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America

To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America

Ed Simon on the Paris of Appalachia

By Ed Simon | April 8, 2021

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists

By Ed Simon | June 21, 2017

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11 Legendary Literary Hoaxes

By Ed Simon | October 19, 2016

10 Classics of Campaign Literature

By Ed Simon | July 18, 2016

Beyond Shakespeare: A Reading List

By Ed Simon | April 25, 2016

What Was Shakespeare's Central Philosophy?

What Was Shakespeare's Central Philosophy?

Life, like theater, is fundamentally a fiction

By Ed Simon | April 25, 2016

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