Nusky’s Classics Corner

By Alex Nusky

· Launched 5 years ago

Creature Double Feature: James Bond Novels

Comparing two authors who took over the James Bond series after Ian Fleming’s death

Jun 6•Alex Nusky

Creature Double Feature: Vampires and 2nd Person Perspectives

How gothic novels like Christopher Buehlman's The Lesser Dead and Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire utilize interesting perspectives like Dracula…

May 17•Alex Nusky

Creature Double Feature: Tom’s Crossing and Spoon River Anthology

Two stories about communities haunted by their folklore.

May 5•Alex Nusky

Creature Double Feature: Masters of Atlantis and Messiah

A comparison of two novels that center around the rise of cults

Apr 5•Alex Nusky

Reflections on 5 Years of Weekly Uploads

Some of the lessons I've learned from the last half-decade of writing for this website.

Mar 21•Alex Nusky

How Not To Translate Homer

5 Actors I’d Rather See Play Odysseus than Matt Damon

The 210 Theories Behind the Fall of Rome, Ranked: Part 1

Was Hitler a Good Painter?

Book Review: The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough

Book Review: The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch

My review of a philosophical treatise on the role of the artist in

Mar 14•Alex Nusky

What is a Faust Narrative?

Looking at how certain elements of Goethe's magnum opus appear in other media, and asking whether their departures exclude them from the comparison.

Book Review: The Alexander Cipher by Will Adams

My review of a thriller centered around the mystery of the location of Alexander the Great's tomb

The Subjects That the Classics Doesn't Cover and Where to Find Them

Breaking down the areas of study that have their origins popularly attributed to characters outside classical antiquity, and showing how deep those…

Book Review: Metamorphoses Reimagined by Michael Marder

A look into another adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses with the modern scholar in mind.