Robert Zaretsky teaches in the Honors College and the department of modern and classical languages at the University of Houston. His latest book is Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.
Stories by This Author
The Review | Essay
Remembering the great historian of the Mediterranean world.
The Review | Opinion
This is what it looks like when a college prioritizes graduation rates.
The Review | Opinion
A recently identified phenomenon seems awfully familiar.
News
When it comes to effective teaching and writing, specialization only hurts.
The Review
Athletic programs too big to fail are leading to academic programs too small to succeed.
The Review
It will take much more than freshman-composition courses to solve the crisis.
The Review
A professor sees constant reminders of STEM’s ascent on his campus.
Commentary
The replacement of books with common study areas is a step in our evolving relationship with the printed word. But it’s still sad.
The Review
Difference can inspire wonder or fear. For Tzvetan Todorov, it was the former.
Advice
If Mariah Carey should make room for a younger generation of performers, does that not also apply to me?
