PinnedHana Liebman·Dec 11, 2023Does Anyone Get Through “War and Peace”?According to the spy comedy Get Smart, no one does — even when armed with a sword. But is Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece really as impenetrable…A response icon5A response icon5
Hana Liebman·Jul 22, 2024“I Am Merely Telling the Truth”: “Jane Eyre” and the Triumph of the Female VoiceWhat is important is that Jane — not Mrs. Reed, not St. John, not even Mr. Rochester — is the one who determines her fate.A response icon1A response icon1
Hana Liebman·May 14, 2024Moral Implications of Madness: Female Sexuality and Violence in Sir Walter Scott’s “The Bride of…The following paragraphs are an extract from my master’s thesis. For those curious and courageous souls who may wish to read the entire…
Hana Liebman·Jan 17, 2024Basil Bob & MeA reflection on the physical and spiritual connections between the human and the botanical
Hana Liebman·Nov 1, 2023My TED Talk: The Humanities Are an Essential Part of Our HumanityThe following essay is one I wrote in 2017; after making a few edits, I share it now.
Hana Liebman·Feb 28, 2023“Pride and Prejudice”: Jane Austen’s Vision of Reformed Gentility and Loving MatrimonyThe following essay is one I have written for a recent graduate class. Though much longer and more formal than the previous pieces I have…
Hana Liebman·Jun 28, 2021“Alias Grace”: A Question of Trauma, Agency, and CulpabilityHaving sampled Margaret Atwood’s dark and dystopian taste in The Handmaid’s Tale, I should have been prepared for the violence and…
InBooks Are Our SuperpowerbyHana Liebman·Apr 12, 2021“The Marriage of Opposites”: Alice Hoffman’s Dazzling Novel of Love and Loss, Ambition and ArtWhen I first picked up Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites, I assumed the title referred to the reluctant union of the primary…
InCuriousbyHana Liebman·Feb 23, 2021Daenerys Targaryen: A Helen of Troy, Queen Cleopatra… and Bloody Mary?The question is: who will she become?A response icon1A response icon1
InCuriousbyHana Liebman·Sep 28, 2020The Tangled Web of Love, Marriage, and Morality in “Anna Karenina”Though the book is named for her, fifty pages pass before Anna Karenina makes her first appearance. Within those opening pages, we are…
