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...recent novels that has achieved commercial as well as critical success. Given McCarthy’s elegant minimalist style and simple, episodic plot, I wondered how this post-apocalyptic novel was capable of capturing the national imagination. It was only after attempting to read Philip Roth’s 1997 novel “American Pastoral,” however, that the merits of “The Road” became apparent. One can learn important things from a novel without even finishing...
Though I only read the first section of Roth’s novel, I was immediately overwhelmed by its heavy fog of exhausted and demoralized irony. “American Pastoral” is replete with characters who lack consequential or connected outer lives, and who also lead hollow and phlegmatic inner lives. These characters are trapped in listless, “nether lives,” in which neither their exterior jobs nor their interior fantasies and dreams inspire them...
...don’t just read a book, take a test, and leave it in class—it’s something you can take to the streets,” she said...
...already had a charming summary about Buzz and our experience with it, so check out this post if you want to read about our initial reaction—and be entertained by our mishaps involving burpees and Scrabble...
...undergraduate in Okazaki, I wished I had a camera to capture the lives and experiences of the individuals I had met. I found it limiting to just do a thesis in writing that wouldn’t show their lives and that few people would read. I wanted to create something vivid, and I wanted more people to have the opportunity to learn about this movement,” says Aaron Litvin...