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June 4, 2015 7:53 am

Throwback Thursday — Writing in Books

Do you write comments in the margins or the covers of your books? If you do, according to ...

books

July 23, 2010 3:45 pm

Prose Fiction Update

For your reading pleasure, as the work week comes to a close. Spend some time this weeke...

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April 29, 2010 1:38 pm

Reading the Culture Wrong—Again

Can you discern a nation's spirit, even its economic genius, from the literature it produc...

people

March 23, 2010 3:33 pm

Notre Dame Doesn’t Know What It Lost

Catholic writer George Weigel of the Ethics and Public Policy Center takes Notre Dame to t...

books

March 15, 2010 6:26 pm

James Bowman Denies Denying Artistic Standing to Tolkien and Lewis

James Bowman has kindly responded to my comments on his assertion that “fantasy is not A...

prose-fiction

January 13, 2010 7:04 pm

Should Shakespeare Be Translated for Modern English?

John McWhorter sure thinks so, as he argues in “The Real Shakespearean Tragedy,” which...

books

November 29, 2006 12:32 pm

Can We Judge Literature?

I stirred up some concerns among PKD fans with my Philip K. Dick article, which was cross-...