Tom Mallon @ Politics and Prose

If you are a GW student money is probably on your mind. With the extreme tuition and high prices of DC, finding anything to do for free is a godsend. Luckily, The Shakespeare Theater Company understands this and offers a free play every fall. This year the selection is slightly ironic though since the money-obsessed…

At what lean times have we arrived when the blubbery Hippo dwindles in scarcity? (I think the author of this article means “scarce” rather than “sparse”: it isn’t that Hippoparaphernalia is thinly scattered so much as it is ceasing to exist) (or is that the punctilious professor in me speaking?) At any rate, we didn’t…

Oscar Gives Himself Away:Reading Wilde’s Presentation Copies Mark Samuels LasnerLecture & ReceptionFriday, April 24th, 3 p,m.Corcoran Gallery of ArtArmand Hammer Auditorium500 17th Street N.W.Washington, D.C. Mark Samuels Lasner is a recognized authority on the literature and art of the Victorian period. A graduate of Connecticut College, he has served as an honorary curator at several…

On this, the first day of classes, my colleagues in the English Department and I would like to welcome you back to GW and wish you a good semester. Please subscribe to or bookmark this blog to keep up to date on events and important information about the major. You may also wish to become…

David Bruce Smith, an alumnus of GW’s English Department, has published a new book entitled Three Miles from Providence: A Tale of Abraham Lincoln and the Soldier’s Home. The book is written for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Its publication coincides with the completion of the refurbishment of Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC where…

I read in the Hatchet that this sly poem by Robert Frost was a favorite of Jon’s, and that he could at a very young age recite it from memory. I offer it here in his memory. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler,…