How would Lucille Clifton have responded to the death of George Floyd and the subsequent turmoil? I comb through her collected poems to find out.
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What Would Lucille Clifton Say?
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Atwood Gets the Authoritarian Mindset
In her sequel to “Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood demonstrates a deep understanding of authoritarianism.
Making Charn Great Again
How does one capture Trump’s disastrous handling of Covid? I invoke Jadis in “The Magician’s Nephew” destroying Charn.
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Ride with an Outlaw, Die with Him
In “Lonesome Dove,” the feckless Jake Spoon falls in with some outlaws and gets punished for the association. A GOP-Trump comparison?
Is Golding’s Novel True? Sadly, Yes
A recent Guardian article about actual shipwrecked boys raises doubts about the psychology of “Lord of the Flies.” Sadly, the book is still true.
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Choose Life over Needless Sacrifice
Trump wants people to gamble with their lives to open up the economy. These works remind us that life is too precious to be sqandered this way.
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Gide’s Immoralist & Trump’s Double Game
Trump plays a double game, pretending to be president while acting like a teenage rebel. So does Michel in André Gide’s “Immoralist.”
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Tolstoy on Suicidal Cult Followers
Why do so many Trump supporters deliberately court coronavirus? Why do Napoleon’s soldiers in “War and Peace” throw themselves into a river to impress him.
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Dante Weighs In on Trumpian Sins
Continuing assessing Trump by Dante’s criteria, he qualifies for a number of the pits in the violence and fraud circles of Inferno.