Clint Eastwood’s argument with an invisible Obama sums up the Romney campaign.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Empty Chair Makes Clint’s Day
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Paul Ryan as Mac the Knife
Paul Ryan, like Mac the Knife, lies with style.
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Lit Titles as Cocktails (“The Wasteland”)
NPR’s Studio 360 sponsored a “literary cocktail” contest. We share here some of the highlights.
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School Begins with Internment Camp Novel
Otsuka’s “When the Emperor Was Divine” excited our incoming students upon the upcoming school year.
More Frightening than Arrest, Freedom
Levertov’s poem about Peter escaping prison confronts existential issues of freedom
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A New York Tennis Poem
Caleb Gardner’s subtle but poignant tennis poem is about more than tennis.
