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13 Books That (Kind of) Changed America

By Robin Bates | Published: December 11, 2019

I review Parini’s “13 Books That Changed America” and find his view of change to be limiting. For one thing, he excludes most of American literature.

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Amelia Bedelia, Working Class Rebel

By Robin Bates | Published: June 13, 2019

Friday Here’s a literary comparison I never would have anticipated: Amelia Bedelia as a feminist Bartleby. Reader Donna Raskin alerted me to this New Yorker article by Sarah Blackwood, who came up with the comparison after reading the series to her children. Amelia Bedelia is a maid who gets in trouble because she takes every […]

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