Monthly Archives: June 2018

Celebrating 45 Years of Marriage

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2018

To commemorate the 45th anniversary of my marriage to Julia, I turn to Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.”

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Using Lit to Battle Fake News

By Robin Bates | Published: June 7, 2018

Authors can fight back against autocratic attempts to define reality but can no longer resort to classic realism, Salman Rushdie argues.

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Trump Reality: Puerto Rico a Success

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2018

Puerto Rico hurricane disaster, like the banana plantation massacre in “100 Years of Solitude,” has all but vanished from the airways.

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The Dangerous Art of Chainsaws

By Robin Bates | Published: June 5, 2018

I thought of Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” as tree trimmers took down a rotten tree by our house.

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Crude Caricatures Are Not Effective Satire

By Robin Bates | Published: June 4, 2018

Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee gave their fans a quick high with their foul language, but such language does little substantive.

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Teach Us All You Can of Saying Yes

By Robin Bates | Published: June 3, 2018

Like Eli, Nancy Schaffer looks for instruction from the child Samuel after he hears God calling.

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June Love, Simple and Entire

By Robin Bates | Published: June 1, 2018

For a June poem, here’s Richard Wilbur reminiscing about young love.

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