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October 28, 2011

Barbara Will on Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay, and the Vichy Dilemma

“My hope with this book is, first, to resituate Stein where I think she belongs—in the latter camp of reactionary modernism. It simplifies her work and falsifies her life to misread both in the service of our own progressive agendas....

October 27, 2011

Caryl Rivers on The False Promises of Single-Sex Education

As the dubious assertions regarding differences between girls and boys begins to take hold, there has bee a push for single-sex education. In an article in the Huffington Post from earlier this month, Caryl Rivers coauthor of The Truth About...

October 26, 2011

Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett Dispel Myths About Girls and Boys

On their website, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett, authors of The Truth About Boys and Girls: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, challenge some myths concerning the ways in which girls and boys learn: Myth: Girls’ and boys’ brains are...

October 25, 2011

Interview with Rosalind Barnett, Coauthor of The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children

Earlier this year Rosalind Barnett was interview by the Boston Globe about her and Caryl Rivers’s new book The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children. The interview can also be read at on the book’s...

October 24, 2011

The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children

A new biological determinism is sweeping through American society. This week we’ll be featuring The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children. Here’s the opening to the book: A new biological determinism is sweeping through American...

October 21, 2011

Who Are the Critical Children in Critical Children?

We conclude our week-long focus on Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels with a special offer for the book and by ending where we perhaps should have begun. First of all, we would like to extend...

October 20, 2011

Richard Locke on Holden Caulfield

“Salinger transforms Huck the frontier fugitive into Holden the prep-school dropout: both boys’ famously provocative colloquial voices embody their quests for American freedom and authenticity.”—Richard Locke, Critical Children In Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels, Richard...

October 19, 2011

The Hazards of Fairyland: The Wall Street Journal Reviews Critical Children, by Richard Locke

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a very thoughtful review of Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels. The reviewer, Frank Cottrell Boyce, calls the book “incisive and entertaining,” and discusses Locke’s examination of novels such as...

October 19, 2011

Udi Aloni Directs an Arab Adaptation of "Waiting for Godot"

Last night, The Freedom Theater a troupe in the Jenin refugee camp, performed “Waiting for Godot at Columbia University’s Miller Theater. The play was directed by Udi Aloni, author of What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters....

October 18, 2011

Interview with Richard Locke, Author of Critical Children

The following is an interview with Richard Locke, author of Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels. Question: What were the criteria for selecting the characters? Did you consider discussing any children from more recent literature? Richard...

October 17, 2011

The Opening to Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels

This week we will be featuring Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels, by Richard Locke. We begin with the opening paragraph to the book: In 1876 Mark Twain stopped working on the manuscript of Huckleberry Finn...

October 14, 2011

Demented Faith or Godless Mamon: The Financial Times on Denis Lacorne's "Religion in America"

We conclude our week-long focus on Religion in America: A Political History, by Denis Lacorne with some excerpts from a review of the book in the Financial Times. In his review, Clive Crook praises Religion in America for its timeliness...

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