Monthly Archives: October 2013

E. W. Jackson, a Modern Day Bounderby

By Robin Bates | Published: October 22, 2013

Virginia lieutenant governor candidate E. W. Jackson appears to be attempting a fraud worthy of Dickens’ Josiah Bounderby.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 21, 2013

At my father’s memorial service, we read poems by e.e. cummings, Shakespeare, Jacques Prévert, and my father himself.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 20, 2013

Yesterday at my father’s memorial service I read ones of his poems about the recurrent cycle of life.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 19, 2013

My father would have loved that his funeral service will conclude with this Jacques Prévert poem.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2013

The science is in: great literature makes you emotionally smarter.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 17, 2013

Richard Wright’s “Black Boy” testifies to the liberating power of literature.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 16, 2013

Can the Tea Party move beyond fantasies and deal with the world as it really is? Shakespeare and Yeats weigh in.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 15, 2013

A witty bit of doggerel captures the twists and turns of the debt ceiling and government shutdown conflict.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 14, 2013

An argument that “Last of the Mohicans” is the great American epic that 19th-century authors were striving to write.