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...cannot accept–is what moves him forward through a passageway that narrows rapidly as he approaches his fate. Roth’s indignation is that Marcus must survive, must fulfill his potential, and yet he can do neither in this world and Roth knows it. The reader??s indignation comes in the end when Roth goes too far, taking complete control and removing all agency from Marcus, and in so doing plunges the audience into the darkness. The final pages of “Indignation,” while attempting the complete reframing that Ian McEwan...
...Later in the book, when Klaus spins his experience teaching Ernest Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea” into a lesson in cultural relativism, his book smarts are forced onto the reader??but in the early historical analysis, they orient rather than irritate...
...into the blur of memory! However,the actual subject-matter of “Memory”remains rather mysterious. At leastwe can rest assured that the book is notonly a bestseller in France and a winnerof the Prix Goncourt, but also the winnerof Elle Magazine’s Reader??s Prize.The CommonerBy Jonathan BurnhamSchwartzOut NowNan A. TaleseNothing Drops in ‘Before It Falls’When authors, editors, publishers, and their marketing minions conveneto discuss what shall adorn their precious new creation, many questionsmust trouble them. “How do we seduce readers...
...imagination run wild. Colbert’s piece contains sentences like “_____ and I met just after college waiting on tables at _____ in _______, ________.” While this is a clever idea, Colbert’s execution lacks the raunchy details necessary to inflame the reader??s imagination, and the one-note joke gets stale after a couple pages. On the front flap, editor Ben Karlin asserts that this is not a self-help book. But it nevertheless provides a remedy of sorts. For everyone who has struggled with love, this book turns that pain into...
...profit from textbook sales.Michael J. Sandel, a professor of government, notes on the syllabus for his class, Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” that all proceeds from textbook sales will go to charity.Sandel said that he compiled the mandatory “Justice: A Reader?? to bring down the costs of the required course materials from $150 to $35, and to make the readings available to courses at other universities.Others avoid the publishing profit quagmire entirely by posting their course materials online, turning the Harvard Women’s Center, which offers free printing...