- Literature has a unique ability to inspire us and change us. Whenever we pick up a good book, we are participating in an event that can shape us and form us, growing us and spurring us on to virtue. Or, if we're not careful, influencing us towards vice. We have a responsibility, then, to understand how literature can affect us and our children so. Join me in exploring how literature—good literature—imparts virtue and the best literature makes us human.
