In Wilkie Collins’s “Moonstone,” the wonderfully realized house steward resorts to “Robinson Crusoe” to face all difficulties.
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Robinson Crusoe Has ALL the Answers
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Hopefully, Trump Is the Queen of Hearts
Is Trump like Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts? In the case of Iran, let’s hope so.
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Taming Americans through Gaslighting
Increasingly we are being gaslighted by Donald Trump and his GOP followers. Carl Rosin identifies “Taming of the Shrew” as one of the great plays about gaslighting.
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Did Clancy Influence Iran Decision?
Intelligence expert Malcolm Nance speculates that a Tom Clancy novel may have contributed toward the killing of the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
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America’s Ubu Confronts Iran
Alfred Jarry wrote “Ubu Roi” as a satiric farce, but it comes very close to describing Donald Trump.
The Star Began Its Singing
A simple but powerful Epiphany poem by Scottish poet George Mackay Brown.
The World Will End in Fire AND Ice
When Frost wrote, “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice,” it now appears (judging by Australia and Greenland) that everyone is right.
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Use Lit to Combat Racism
My thoughts about a racial book burning at a southern college–and how literature can help.
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