Word: essays
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...imagine having to write a three-page essay every two weeks for three years--that's what I've been doing. For a year now, I've also been trying to ensure balance and vibrance in the commentary on our opinion pages. But today, at least, I don't have to battle writer's block...
SOCIAL CRITICS SHOULD be wary of proximity. Examining a volatile issue--sex, class, race--from too far away can make the resulting work seem bloodless. Standing too close puts the observer at risk of being sucked into the overly confessional world of daytime talk shows. In his new essay collection, Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (Oxford; $23; 218 pages), Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as well as a Baptist minister, gets the distance just right. In his prose one hears the fervor...
...SUPPOSE IT'S ALMOST AS NOBLE TO LIVE in Minnesota as it is to live in Wisconsin [ESSAY, Nov. 27]. Every word of Garrison Keillor's Thanksgiving offering was a treasure. What a relief to be reminded that the hype can only get to you if you let it. I will pay attention and be joyful to the funny, genuine parts of life that serve as reminders of what is right in front of me--the beauty of the accepted moment. Thank you, Garrison, for conveying the message of a holiday not gone astray. COLLEEN ALLGOOD Rhinelander, Wisconsin...
...first section of Bad Objects focuses on the future and includes an essay universalism, a topic Schor hopes to explore further when she takes a sabbatical next spring...
SHAME ON CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER. HIS unsettling and premonitory ending to his article "Quebec and the Death of Diversity" [ESSAY, Nov. 13], "America is proceeding blithely down the path of diversity and ethnic separatism ... America's destination is the Balkans," does little except kindle a sense of despair and insecurity. Krauthammer avoids the tough questions: When and how will this happen? Can it be prevented? While he is right in noting that ethnically driven forces have the potential to tear the U.S. asunder, Krauthammer's essay is bereft of viable solutions or practical advice on what can be done. ALEX RIVERO...