Word: readerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cambridge for a year-long stint as a visiting lecturer in Harvard’s government department, William Kristol compiled a 534-page anthology of reprinted articles that initially appeared in his Washington-based conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard. The resulting collection, “The Weekly Standard, A Reader: 1995-2005,” is filled with writing that is often laugh-out-loud funny and reliably thought-provoking...
...bait-and-switch that, imperceptibly at first, draws the reader into the emotional realm of the soldier. Gingerly, he piques our interest with funny anecdotes and moments of suspense...
...logical assumption, but one that Crawford repeatedly subverts. Just when everything seems okay, he plunges back to war’s dark reality of pointless destruction; the narrative style brings the reader so painfully close to the truth that we can smell the feces in the streets and feel the wet remnants of human brain tissue on our shoes...
...powerful question at the end of his current summer blockbuster. Why hasn’t someone put Dakota Fanning in a dark hole and left her there for a very long time? Actually, the film raised other questions as well, which I will now ask you, the faithful reader. How much money can be made off shamefully evoking 9/11? How much dull heavy-handedness is required to convince an audience of a film’s Importance? Do you know about the war in Iraq—and don’t you think it?...
...that the section met at 10 a.m., class participation was off the charts: everyone had a literate and informed opinion as to what disastrous effects Nora Roberts and Danielle Steele were wreaking upon modern society. But when the TF asked what the “purely hypothetical” reader might gain from such a novel, the 15-person section abruptly fell silent. Ten audible ticks of the second-hand later, one of the bolder sophomores admitted, “Well, they’re titillating...