About Naomi Kanakia
The content here focuses mostly on the Great Books, but not in a Dead Poet’s Society literary appreciation sort of way. I wish that I could do that, but I just find it boring. I’m not your English teacher! Mostly I write about the Great Books phenomenon itself: the place in the world for autodidacts who engage independently with what Matthew Arnold called “the greatest that has been thought or said” (am probably misquoting him—I do that a lot). I’m one of those autodidacts myself, and I’m persistently fascinated by how little discussion we have about lay (i. e.