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November 3, 2011

Second Read: Miles Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Story of a Shipwrecked Soldier"

In his essay for Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage, Miles Corwin discusses Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s career of a journalist and how it shaped his later work as a novelist. Marquez’s journalistic work The Story of...

November 2, 2011

Second Read: Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night

“The Armies of the Night remains one of the most enlivening, and most deeply American, testaments ever written.”—Tom Piazza We continue our focus on Second Read: Writers Look Back on Classic Works of Reportage with an excerpt from Tom Piazza’s...

November 2, 2011

Denis Lacorne: Secularists or Christian? The Religious Lives of American Political Candidates in the Public Sphere

“What is certain is that the primary season has reopened a three century old battle of narratives opposing Enlightenment secularists to Neo-Puritan and evangelical believers.”—Denis Lacorne In an essay for the Huffington Post, Denis Lacorne, author of Religion in America:...

November 1, 2011

Second Read: Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan

“Paul Cowan was a journalist who threw himself into situations that might just change his mind, and how many of us dare to do that?”—Rick Perlstein As the title suggests, Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage,...

November 1, 2011

Lunch with Donald Keene

The Financial Times recently published a delightful and fascinating article about Donald Keene. In the article, David Pilling, the Asia editor for the Financial Times, sits down for lunch with Keene at a French restaurant in Tokyo. The two discuss...

November 1, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Meditations, Memory, and More

Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice B. Alan Wallace History and Repetition Kojin Karatani; edited by Seiji M. Lippit Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory Edited by Marianne...

October 31, 2011

Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage

This week our featured book is Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage, edited by James Marcus and the Staff of the Columbia Journalism Review. In describing the book Tom Frank writes, “”Let us now praise forgotten...

October 31, 2011

Kelly Oliver on Pet Lovers, Pathologized

“Within our philosophy and within our culture, we cannot take seriously our love and dependence on animals without turning them into medicine and making ourselves sick.”—Kelly Oliver “To love animals is to be soft, childlike, or pathological. To admit dependence...

October 28, 2011

Caryl Rivers Debates Single-Sex Education with the Headmaster of an All-Boys School

We conclude our focus on The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, by Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett, by following up on yesterday’s post on single-sex education. Earlier this week, in a fascinating exchange, Caryl...

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...

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