Tag Archives: Don Quixote

Trump, Quixote, and Windmills

By Robin Bates | Published: May 19, 2024

Both Trump and Don Quixote have an animus against windmills. The resemblances end there, however.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 10, 2024

Works that employ meta-fiction to break down the boundaries between the real and the fantastical teach us how to think outside the box.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 19, 2023

One way of seeing “Tom Jones” is as “valentine armor,” alternating between romance and light satire. As such, it saves us from broken hearts.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2023

A recent New Yorker article critiques our reliance on stories but makes the mistake of not distinguishing between different kinds of stories.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 13, 2023

The late Kundera has fascinating insights into how the novel has intersected with history.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 18, 2021

As the Texas power grid implodes in the fact of arctic weather, the GOP pulls a Quixote and blames… windmills.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 25, 2020

Trump is like Don Quixote in that both deny reality. Quixote has much more benevolent motives, however.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 26, 2015

While literature can seem helpless in the face of history’s cataclysms, it proves far more durable than the events that seem to overwhelm it.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 13, 2015

Great fantasy can always be seen as oppositional, pushing against prevailing modes of thought and opening up portals into new human possibilities.