Seeing Past the Ivy
William Deresiewicz : The Short of It
Why the commentariat's response to hand-wringing about "the decline of reading" condescends to the large mass of nonspecialist readers.
Literacy & Reading
2008
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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?
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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.
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