Brundage’s magnificent crime novel “All Things Cease to Appear” frustrates our longing for accountability—as does DJT.
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Tag Archives: Donald Trump
How Sociopaths Like DJT Escape Justice
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Macduff as the Trump Resistance
“Macbeth” is probably the best Shakespearean play for capturing the Trump presidency and Trump resistance.
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DJT’s Cabinet: Jumping Frogs, Lilliputians
Three literary comparisons for Trump’s cabinet: Twain’s jumping frog, Lear’s elder daughters, Swift’s Lilliputians
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DJT Goes Gatsby but Think Dickens
Trump’s weekend Gatsby-style party brings to mind another novel: Dickens’s “Tale of Two Cities.”
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Imploding Edifices, in D.C. and in Lit
Trump demolishing the East Wing of the White House brings to mind various imploding edifices in lit: “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “Fall of the House of Usher,” and “Princess and Curdie.”
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Oct. 18, No Kings Day: Arise, Now, Arise
White House advisor and resident fascist Stephen Miller has been playing Wormtongue to old and demented Trump.
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DoJ’s Dickensian Assault on Justice
The Justice Department’s case against Comey brings to mind the Jarndyce case in “Bleak House.” Both have the effect of sapping time, money, energy and the will to live.
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Comics Play Cheshire Cat to DJT’s Queen
Trump is sounding increasingly like Carroll’s Queen of Hearts, ordering executions when often fail to materialize.
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