As Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida after having devastated several islands, I find myself delivering up Yeats’s “Prayer for My Daughter.”
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Prayer for My Granddaughters
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Reasons to Read
Will Schwalbe, author of “Books for Living,” has a great list of reasons to read.
DACA Kids, Back to the Shadows?
“Invisible Man,” with its protagonist moving in and out of shadows, is all too relevant as the Trump administration threatens to deport the DACA kids.
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What Tennis Meant to Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy picked up tennis late in life, even though at one point seeing it as symbolic of bourgeois decadence. A look at the novel “Resurrection” explains why he changed.
“Find Work,” an Answer to Every Grief?
Rhina P. Espaillat captures the ambivalent nature of work in the poem posted for Labor Day. It can be ennobling but too much emphasis on it can rob us of our humanity.
Great Lit Changes Expectations Horizons
Hans Robert Jauss’s believes that great literature changes horizons of expectation whereas lesser lit simply confirms them. If “Madame Bovary” was brought to trial, Jauss says, it is because it charted a new course in literary history that people didn’t understand.
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