Author Archives: Theodora Goss

I don’t know what attracts me to some novels and not others, but I love reading Muriel Spark. There is something about the way she puts words together. They seem to mean one thing and they really mean another, like … Continue reading →

Salem, Massachusetts is one of my favorite towns. If I could live there — if the commute from Boston were not so far — I would. Luckily, I sometimes get to visit, as I did last week, although with seventy … Continue reading →

To be honest, I have not been feeling much joy lately. I’ve been sick for about two weeks. Over the spring break, I went to London and Bath, and I think I picked up something — I came back from … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago, I went to the symphony with our teaching team — four faculty members and seventy-two students. We heard a modern piece, which happened to be a very good modern piece — I’m not always fond of modern … Continue reading →

At the beginning of the semester, I asked my students, all of whom are freshmen, how many of them had been told in high school not to use AI. Some hands went up. I asked how many of them had … Continue reading →

First, you have to get to Mother Night’s country. It’s both through and beyond: through any doorway, but also beyond the place you’re stepping into, so you can’t just step through and end up there. You have to, in a … Continue reading →

What I love about the sky above Budapest is that I can see it. There are strict limits on the height of buildings in Budapest. Traditionally, they could not be build taller than Parliament or Saint Stephen’s Basilica, both of … Continue reading →