Books
Here’s to the late Harold Bloom. Do yourself a favor. Get up early (or whenever) and read something that matters.
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A new complete translation of the most accomplished novel by Yury Tynyanov, an innovative Russian man of letters during the experimental 1920s.
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Thomas Grattan, a New Yorker with German roots, displays an observant eye and a way with dialogue in his first novel.
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There’s a looseness, a jagged brio that gives the images in ¡Printing the Revolution! a visual bang — a kind of primal pop.
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Children Under Fire examines gun violence in America, focusing on how it is threatening our nation’s children.
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The real culture war in 1980s America was waged by young people who were trying to create their own culture and jealously rejected corporate culture along the way.
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It isn’t always easy being beautiful, brainy, and talented.
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“‘Rightsism’ gives judges much more power than they deserve in a democracy,” Jamal Greene writes. “When U.S. judges face a conflict of rights, they cancel one right or the other.”
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Throughout her career, Joan Walsh Anglund remained humbled and amazed by her success, maintaining a quiet and private life.
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Pop Culture Commentary: The Rise of the “Boomer Doomer”
Hippie Boomers have morphed from being figures we were horrified to see victimized (think “Easy Rider”) to the kind of people that audiences are positively happy to see get their comeuppances.
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