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Modernism, Liberalism & Tolkien
Modern liberalism likes to think that all our problems are epistemological: we are afflicted by never knowing with sufficient clarity what we ought to do. Our fictions tend to reflect that assumption. Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Gopnik, Alan Jacobs, fantasy, J. R. R. Tolkien, liberalism, modernism, New Yorker, Young Adult Fantasy
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NYTBR on The Anthologist
I am not a big poetry person so I was a little worried about reading The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker. The NYTBR review makes me want to read it however: And let’s face it, stories involving poets tend to be … Continue reading
I get it, you hate Amazon & the Kindle. So what?
Let me state right up front that I am biased on this subject. I own a Kindle (1) and enjoy it. But on the other hand I don’t think I am such a Kindle partisan that I can’t see reasonable … Continue reading