Monthly Archives: June 2023

A McEwan Passage to Raise Your Spirits

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2023

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Poetry and Our June 8, 1973 Wedding

By Robin Bates | Published: June 7, 2023

I share the wedding ceremony that Julia and I went through 50 years ago.

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Warning to Fans of Authoritarianism

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2023

Applying “The Frogs Who Wished for a King” to the U.S., Biden is King Log and Trump King Crane.

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Pretending that Slavery Wasn’t a Big Deal

By Robin Bates | Published: June 5, 2023

Unlike Faulkner, the Southern Agrarians claimed that African Americans weren’t an integral part of Southern culture.

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Joe Biden as a Tom Robbins Character

By Robin Bates | Published: June 4, 2023

Think Biden is too old? See what Tom Robbins in “Jitterbug Perfume” says about such complaints.

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The Trinity: Beyond, Beside Us, and Within

By Robin Bates | Published: June 3, 2023

Maybe, to understand the Trinity, we need poets like Malcolm Guite.

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English Patient Taught Me about My Father

By Robin Bates | Published: June 1, 2023

“The English Patient” has given me a valuable new perspective on my father–which is another good reason why we should all read novels.

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