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- Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front
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- Hal Shows’ Essay Collection The Bandshell Project
- Summary of the 2021 Biography of Philip Roth
- Review of Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians
- David Lowenthal’s book
The Past is a Foreign Country - Stendhal’s The Life of Henry Brulard
- Simon Winchester’s new book Land
- Anhinga Press Poetry Anthology North of Wakulla
- Harry Morris’ Landmark Study—Last Things in Shakespeare
- Thomas E. Ricks’ new book First Principles
- Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education
- Lionel Trilling’s Book The Liberal Imagination
- The Battle of Hastings: and Literature Hasn’t Been the Same Since
- Kotsilibas-Davis’ Biography of Maurice Barrymore
- On Great Literature (Featuring T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets)
- Plato’s Phaedo and Its Theory of Forms: Conversations and Language Games
- P. V. LeForge’s Principle of Interchange
- Bennett Cerf’s At Random
- Myrtle Scharrer Betz’s Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise
- Daniel Defoe’s The Storm
- Bennett Cerf’s Great German Short Novels and Stories
- John Sitter’s Literary Loneliness
- Hintikkas’ Investigating Wittgenstein
- Oliver Bullough’s Moneyland
- Ernst Junger’s Storm of Steel
- R. Bruce Bickley’s Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study
- Walter Cronkite’s A Reporter’s Life
- Oleg Kalugin’s Autobiography Spymaster
- Fred Allen’s Much Ado about Me
- No Applause—Just Throw Money; Trav S.D.’s Book that Made Vaudeville Famous
- Robert Sherman’s Autobiography Chapters of My Life
- Book Review of Sonification and the Aesthetic Dimension
- Simon Callow’s “Alternative Autobiography” My Life in Pieces
- Dick Van Dyke’s Autobiography
- Tom Nichols’ The Death of Expertise
- Jeff Haden’s The Motivation Myth
- Simon Callow’s Biography of Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Novel The Leopard
- World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal’s Autobiography
- Lock and Dixon’s Biography of Patrick Brontë: Man of Sorrow
- Notes on Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister
- Georg Henrik von Wright’s Wittgenstein
- The Honored Guest
- Book Review of The Secret Lives of Codebreakers
- Book Review of Henry Adams’ The Education of Henry Adams
- The Ides of March
- Charles Dickens 203
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- Shakespeare 450
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- The Albert Effect
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- Jay McInerney’s 1990s Masterpiece Brightness Falls
- Oscar Wilde: After Hard Labor
- Book Review of Michael Holroyd’s Revised Biography of Lytton Strachey
- Book Review of Henry James’ Lesser-Known Novel Confidence
- The Two Daisy Millers of Henry James
- Book Review of John Cheever’s Stories
- On T. S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Book Review of Thomas Wolfe’s novel Look Homeward, Angel
Tag Archives: Social Criticism
Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
Book Review Title: Sartor Resartus Author: Thomas Carlyle Publisher: Oxford University Press Date: August 1, 2008 (original book publication 1836) ISBN: 978-0199540372 Structure of the book: an Editor-Biographer writes about a German Professor-Autobiographer (Herr Teufelsdröckh). The background is that the … Continue reading
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Tom Nichols’ The Death of Expertise
Book Review Title: The Death of Expertise Author: Tom Nichols Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (March 1, 2017) Tom Nichols’ Death of Expertise reminds us of a time when we took expert opinion seriously. Not that we followed blindly … Continue reading
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Jeff Haden’s The Motivation Myth
Book Review Title: The Motivation Myth Author: Jeff Haden Publisher: Portfolio (January 9, 2018) Jeff Haden’s Motivation Myth reveals the secret of true motivation, the uncomfortable truth that we have to go through the pain of getting started WITHOUT motivation. … Continue reading
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