1. A lesson learned

    Opinions are like mentors, says Nicholas Delbanco. We all have them. Some are more agreeable than others.

  2. Shop around the corner

    Novelist Nicholas Delbanco pens an ode to readers’ pulp-and-paper Shangri-La: the bookstore.

  3. What we keep, what we give away

    Nicholas Delbanco packs up his personal library and opens the chapter to a new era in life.

  4. Copycatting

    Nicholas Delbanco ponders the perils of plagiarism.

  5. An uncommon education: Ep 4

    In “A Writer Worth Reading,” Detroit Public Television partners with U-M historians to explore the University’s commitment to “the new, the unusual, and the radical.”

  6. It's only words

    Nicholas Delbanco illustrates how language that once seemed transgressive is now quite routine.

  7. The quick brown fox

    Novelist Nicholas Delbanco examines our changing language, letter by letter.

  8. Echo & association

    Novelist Nicholas Delbanco reminds us that ‘good writers borrow, great writers steal.’

  9. 'A new shadow on the earth'

    “The idea that every phrase should and must be scrutinized is central to democracy,” says novelist Nicholas Delbanco.