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...resonates deeply. Even more encouraging for the younger reader: though many of these authors had horrible experiences, most of them have since found happiness in love. The message to mere mortals who constantly feel awkward around the opposite sex is that there are happy endings. While most of the book??s pieces are very strong, some do fall short. Most notably falling into this category is Colbert’s “The Heart is a Choking Hazard.” Colbert, one of the book??s headliners and the winner of the Associated Press?...
...phrase “audacity of hope”—the title of Barack Obama’s best-selling book??comes, as NBC’s Tim Russert reminded viewers of Tuesday’s Democratic debate, from a sermon by the Senator’s pastor back home, an alleged anti-Semite with an admiration for Louis Farrakhan. And it is a phrase that starry-eyed Obama supporters like to think describes their mission...
...book. One character, hoping to gain status but choosing to forgo violence, turns to “literature, which is a surreptitious form of violence.”As the book proceeds, Bolaño’s seemingly objective portrait of these writers slowly breaks down. In the book??s final portrait, “The Infamous Ramírez Hoffman,” Bolaño gives up the dispassionate encyclopedist’s voice and instead injects himself directly into the story. He becomes one of the primary characters and narrates in first-person, which...
...problem of climate change—the year is 2017 and, with the “sun… growing hotter,” London is suffering “sweltering heat.” There’s no question that Crow has been reading her World Book??in the space of the first five tracks we’re taken on a travelogue that drops us at Lake Pontchartrain (in the up-beat post-Katrina ballad “Love is Free”), Riyadh, Alexandria, the Ganges, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Washington.Of course, with worldly...
...unsparingly—objects of her criticism include Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Katie Couric, and Virginia Woolf—but pins the greater part of blame for society’s anti-intellectualism on religious fundamentalism, media packaging, pseudoscience, and exploitative political pandering. The book??s argument is intriguing and, given this year’s presidential race, especially well-timed. The focus of the historical analysis, which constitutes the bulk of the work, is the intellectual decline of the American mind. Jacoby faults two forces: religious fundamentalism and mass marketing. She sees...