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Audiences knew (or at least thought they knew) something was up, and that something was what made these performers unique.
If this collection has one failing, it is its attempt to make Flannery O’Connor into something she was not: “woke.”
It’s Walker Percy’s subversive strategy to stick us with a decided non-hero and have us gradually appreciate his non-participatory status.
Peter Keough has edited a useful, insightful, and delightful new collection of short essays that explore films that appeal to adults who seek childlike glee or awe at the movies.
If you have not read John Berger, by the end of this biography you’re likely to feel an urgent need to pick up one of his books.
In this valuable call-to-action, Roger Hallam says we have to recognize that climate change is an emergency and rebel against our extinction.
Klotsvog ends up being a fascinating literary failure. Good for academics, but bad for readers.
The very people that George Will is trying to appeal to are evidently quite happy to be drunk on the power that their brutishness has created.
Book Commentary: “La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”
José Luis Trueba Lara’s anti-popularist history is the truest kind of people’s history.
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