The most immediate source of controversy in any Great Books course is its name, which inevitably prompts the question: What makes a great book? And more importantly, who? This was the first question ...

These adults are attending a respected institution of higher learning, perhaps in pursuit of lofty goals, and they’ve signed up for a course on great books. There, they find no escape from the ...

Scott Black invites the public to explore Great Books over dinner. The Tanner Humanities Center offers a taste of its Great Books course through engaging faculty talks paired with dinner and drinks.

Of the unmaking of great books, there is no end. Such is life. Only in fiction does the plot resolve in a tidy closing of narrative threads. Life is messier. If it does not dribble to a close, it ends ...