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Slow Bullets: The Trajectory of Tragedy
Reviewing Chinua Achebe’s Classic Novel of Cultural Collision, ‘Things Fall Apart’
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‘Lead Us Not into Distraction’
What Monks and Nuns Know about Staying Focused. Reviewing Jamie Kreiner’s ‘The Wandering Mind’
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Shakespeare’s Plan for Personal Growth
What We Can Learn from the Bard’s Plays, Peers, and Working Habits
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Why Build a Personal Library?
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The Vital Necessity of Very Old Books
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James and the Giant Question: Should We Cancel Roald Dahl?
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Bookish Diversions: C.S. Lewis in Writing Hell
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Keep or Toss? My Personal Criteria for Culling a Library
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Bookish Diversions: Why Read Shakespeare?
First Folio, Universal Appeal, Teaching Shakespeare in School, but Shakespeare Wasn’t Even Shakespeare, Right?
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Want to Understand History? You Have to See It All at Once
A Parable about Time for our Time. Reviewing ‘A History of the Island’ by Eugene Vodolazkin
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The Vital Necessity of Very Old Books
Every Age Echoes with Its Own Ideas. Ancient Voices Offer a Way to Cut Through the Noise. A Response to a Critic of Old Books
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‘Culture Is a Huge Recycling Project’
Is Appropriation Appropriate? Depends on What We Mean. Martin Puchner’s ‘Culture: The Story of Us from Cave Art to K-Pop’
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Bookish Diversions: C.S. Lewis in Writing Hell
Derek Parfit’s Mad Dash, William Faulkner’s Wheelbarrow, Dean Koontz’s Nonexistent Outlines, More
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Kevin Kelly’s ‘Excellent Advice for Living’
Words to the Wise: Reviewing the Techno-Optimist’s New Book of Aphorisms
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Novels Are a Waste of Time. Except They’re Not
Russ Roberts’s Top-5 Novels and Mine, But Novels Aren’t Real, Charles Portis and Toni Morrison’s Research, More
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Catch-22: ‘They’re All Trying to Kill Me’
If You Know You’re Crazy, You Must Be Sane. Reviewing Joseph Heller’s Classic Satire
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Bookish Diversions: Literary Capitalism
7 Biggest Publishers, Dance of the Penguins, the Problem of Discoverability, Anti-Capitalist Bookman, Great Bookstores, More
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