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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
April 26, 2023The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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Watchman, What of the Night?
April 25, 2023The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely...
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A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
April 24, 2023“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
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The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
April 24, 2023Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
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A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
April 24, 2023Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
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Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
April 23, 2023I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many...
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Roses & Bulbul Birds
April 23, 2023What’s intriguing about the dreadful psychology of Muslim, particularly Shiite [read Hizbollah] fundamentalism, is that aspect...
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Sudden Onset
April 23, 2023From that first tingling in bed to calling 911 was an hour and a half. Sudden...
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Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
April 22, 2023O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
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Nick Bottom’s Blessing
April 22, 2023The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity's sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice....