Nicholas Delbanco

America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. But if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, generals, and presidents to …

The unexpected love and resulting tragedy between a young college professor and his student is revisited twenty-five years later when they meet again, he as a reclusive and retired scholar, she a recent divorce+a7e. Tour."