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A Blog About Books and Reading
While her impassioned tone is absolutely understandable, it occasionally results in a lapse of her professed decorum.
The biggest intellectual culprits in our current sociopolitical culture, Robertson suggests, are surety and self-righteousness.
Both Thompson and Williams attempt to draw direct connections between the societal cleavages the Goetz case brought into stark relief and the current polarization of political sentiment in the U.S.
Administered by Canada's National History Society, the awards, which were established in 1996, are given out in five categories.
Stursberg diagnoses a number of maladies causing our current situation, some more persuasive than others.
This is one of the things Sallis insists on: the idea that commercial fiction can contain insights every bit as profound as those in more high-minded literary novels.
Marx argues that the 21st century has been typified not by artistic innovation or renovation, but by a capitalistic retrenchment.
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.
Helwig displays an almost preternatural empathy and a willingness to meet people where they are.
Huet is hesitant to reduce OneTaste to the simple category of a cult, notwithstanding the use of that word in her subtitle.
