The Light Stuff
Melanie Rehak : The Short of It
The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?
Literacy & Reading
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Victim 'Hood
Chris Lehmann : The Short of It
An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
2007
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The Book of Questions
In a book-length essay on the novel, Milan Kundera foresees the curtain of literary history drawing to a close.
2006
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Representative Fictions
An ambitious two-volume history of the novel explores its evolution across continents and centuries.
2005
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Wartime Lies
Timothy Snyder : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
As Nazis dropped bombs in Warsaw, poet Czeslaw Milosz wrote a collection of literary criticism that sought to trace the rise of totalitarianism by deconstructing the mythologies of Western modernity.
2000
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Why Dubya Can't Read
Christopher Hitchens : George W. Bush
I know from teaching experience that nature very often compensates the dyslexic with a higher IQ or some grant of intuitive intelligence. If this is true for Bush it hasn't yet become obvious.
Can young voters stand up to suppression and swing Election 2008? Plus: Robert Fisk on the Middle East, and McCain's Russia scandal. (13mb mp3)
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