Pratchett’s novel “Thud!” is a plea to find inner strength rather than yielding to blind rage.
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Conquering the Darkness Within
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Finn, Hengest, and Terror in Israel
The Finn episode in Beowulf applies only to well to the Hamas terror attack on Israel–and to the probable Israeli response.
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Grendel’s Mother Attacks Israel
Hamas’s attack on Israel brings to mind Grendel’s Mother, who is the archetype of perpetual blood feuds.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged anti-Semitism, Beowulf, Grendel's mother, Hamas, Israel, Oct. 7 Israel attack Comments closed
Terrible Beauty Born from Easter 1916?
Yeats’s “Easter, 1916” is a profound meditation on activism, including on the poet’s ambivalent feelings about Dublin’s Easter Rising.
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Rushdie, a Voice for Reason
In a recent fantasy novel, Rushdie describes the forces that, last Friday, led to an attempted stabbing of the author.
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Baldwin on Making Education Relevant
Baldwin’s “Essays to Teachers” reminds them of what education should really be about.
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Browning Describes Incel’s Misogyny
The Toronto van murderer claims to have been an “incel” (involuntary celibate) who acted out his rage against women. He resembles the creepy speaker in Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover.”
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