While “Midnight’s Children” may apply only too closely to Trump-led America, there’s some room for hope in it as well.
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Rushdie on Dreams That Refuse to Die
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Election Anxieties? Read Kipling’s “If”
Milbank uses a Kipling line as he begs readers not to leave the Washington Post. Kipling also provides timely advice for the last week of this election.
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Environmental Novelist Harriet Martineau
Victorian novelist Harriet Martineau, though largely forgotten, foresaw ecology, environmentalism, and realist fiction.
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Not Rage Or Tears but Radical Hope
With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.
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Judge Invokes Handmaid’s Tale in Ruling
A Georgia judge has invoked “Handmaid’s Tale” is ruling against a six-week abortion ban, testifying to the power of literature.
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O Is for Dirty Oil Men
A Scott Bates poem about the kinds of billionaires–especially the oil men–who are flocking to Trump.
Trump, Quixote, and Windmills
Both Trump and Don Quixote have an animus against windmills. The resemblances end there, however.
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Cloud Cuckoo Land: The Power of Story
Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is testimony to the power of story to save us when we need saving.
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Does Hamlet Speak for Generation Z?
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