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The most surprising of the many errors in Daniel Choi's coloumn is his careless derivation of the word "diversity," which is related far less to "divert" than it is to the Latin diversitas, "difference, disagreement." I am amazed than Choi finds distasteful one of the most fundamental principles of...
A close race between both candidates, but in the end the debate setting, Mechanics Hall, where Charles Dickens once read "A Christmas Carol," wins this one.
This is by no means to suggest that such illumination is not to be had from examples in different world literatures, nor is it to absolve us of our responsibility as world citizens to study other cultures. But I believe it safe to say that, for Americans of today, the...
But for me, the thing that made the trial so addictive on a day-in, day-out basis--besides, of course, the spectacle of a beloved celebrity on trial for murdering his wife in an unusually gruesome fashion--was the underlying portrait it painted of a particular time and place...
Only a foolhardy or a thoroughly self-confident novelist would risk such a potential yawn inducer, and Peter Ackroyd decidedly belongs in the second category. The author of biographies of T.S. Eliot and Charles Dickens and of seven earlier novels, including The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton, Ackroyd...