Articles about fiction and non-fiction books and how they can help us live a better life.
We already know why the Socratic method is important in the age of AI. But the book of the same name claims that Socrates himself means little to many readers. They mostly associate him, its author notes, with the saying that the unexamined life is not worth living. And they know that his rational inquiries … Read more
. When I first got my hands on ChatGPT, I asked it to write in the prose style of my favorite authors, such as C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, and Ernest Hemingway. I did it because I was looking for the best way to express my own thoughts and improve as a writer. You may have … Read more
. What is a good prose style? When I think about this question, I’m reminded of George Orwell, who famously named aesthetic enthusiasm as one of the “four great motives” for writing. For him, it was the “perception of beauty in … words and their arrangement” and the “pleasure in the impact of one sound … Read more
This article will be interesting to those of you who are particularly fond of C.S. Lewis (November 29, 1898–November 22, 1963) and his nonfiction books. In the introduction to one of them, “On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions,” David C. Downing writes that Lewis was “arguably one of the most lucid … Read more