My wife’s beautiful name becomes synonymous with longing in both a Robert Herrick and a John Lennon lyric.
Monthly Archives: February 2015
A Song of Love for Julia
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Pennywise Kills North Carolina Muslims
America’s periodic explosions of violence, most recently in the killing of North Carolina Muslim students, is perhaps best captured by the gothic horror of Stephen King, especially in his novel “It.”
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Learning to Love the Desert
In “Ash Wednesday,” T. S. Eliot turns the despair of “Hollow Men” on its head, seeing it not as the end of hope but as the beginning of faith.
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Spend Valentine’s Day with a Novel
As you look ahead to Valentine’s Day tomorrow, consider which literary character you would most like to pair up with.
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Sarah Palin as Dorothy
Sarah Palin’s attraction in part lay in the way that she seemed to be a reincarnation of MGM’s Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.”
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An Ideal Place to Study Lit
A summer institute where one buries oneself in books is my version of James Hilton’s Shangri-La.
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If Beowulf Went to War with ISIS
The Jordanian response to the burning alive of a Jordanian pilot reminds us that Grendel’s Mother is on the loose in the Middle East. Beowulf models how we should respond.
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