With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.
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Not Rage Or Tears but Radical Hope
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To Fight Authoritarianism, Think Sisyphus
How to fight against authoritarianism? This of yourself as Camus’s Sisyphus.
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Plague Lit on Life Returning to Normal
Plague Lit teaches us how people behave DURING plagues. How about how they behave when life returns to normal? Camus may be best on this.
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Post of the Year: Plagues in Literature
A survey of literature through the ages that has dealt with plagues.
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A Literary Survey of What Plagues Mean
A survey of how literary authors have grappled for meaning in times of pestilence bolsters our own search. I look at Sophocles, Virgil, Defoe, Porter, Camus, King, Mandel, Atwood, and Erdrich.
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To Understand COVID-19, Read Camus
Camus’s “The Plague” provides insights into our own coronavirus.
Reading My Way to Adulthood
As an adolescent, I used fantasy in an attempt to hold on to my childhood innocence and hated “Catcher in the Rye.” Little did I realize that Salinger’s novel describes my struggle.
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