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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.
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.
This is a carefully-researched book of far more than academic interest.
In this new biography, Ted Shawn is on display in all his narcissism, paternalism, hypocrisy, originality, and the dedication to creative expression that set American modern dance on its way.
Book Review: A Biography of John Berger — A Seminal Artist and Thinker
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.
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