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This is not to say that Paglia’s essays don’t contain important and novel insights. She notes the subtle interplay of themes and images between different poems, and seamlessly integrates historical context and contemporary allusion. Her discussion of the fallen tyrant in Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” for instance, touches on the resonance of the poem in post-Napoleonic Europe, as well as noting that “modern readers may find the clarity of conception and execution of ‘Ozymandias’ especially compelling because Shelley?...
...answer might be obvious (of course he wouldn’t) and the question might be wildly fantastic and unhelpfully simplistic, but such is the nature of Will Thomas’s mildly entertaining detective novel “To Kingdom Come...
...Kingdom” is Thomas’ second novel, and, as in his debut, “Some Danger Involved,” it features the crime-fighting duo of Victorian “private enquiry agent” Cyrus Barker and his young assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. Barker is a sort of Sherlock Holmes on steroids: in addition to possessing a strange omniscience, he is in peak physical condition and can defeat even the most formidable of adversaries in hand-to-hand combat (or, as is inexplicably the case here, stick fighting). He is also a botanist with an Edenic...
...Beyond that, however, the novel falls completely flat. Any contemporary work that features terrorism is bound to have political implications, but those in “Kingdom” are so thinly veiled as to be laughable...
...seems like now if you haven’t already published a novel or won a Nobel prize, you’re at a disadvantage,” Coakley said...