Arnold Weinstein. The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing. New York, Princeton University Press, 2022.

"The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing" by Arnold Weinstein is a profound and deeply personal defense of the humanities, showing how literature serves as an unparalleled vehicle for human empathy and self-discovery. Drawing on more than fifty years of teaching experience at Brown University, Weinstein argues that literature offers a unique form of knowledge—one that allows readers to step outside their own lives and temporarily "become" someone else.