Tag Archives: Rabelais

A Bakhtinian Reading of Zelenskyy

To understand Ukraine’s Zelensky, Adam Gopnik applies the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin.

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How to View Prejudice in the Classics

How to handle instances of prejudice in the classics? Let the values battles fly.

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Grendel in Paris

As with other mass killings, “Beowulf” has lessons for the Paris massacre. Defoe and Rabelais, meanwhile, give us insight in the targeted satirical journal “Charlie Hebdo.”

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