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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...

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 25, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Socialism Unbound and a Radical Luhmann

Socialism Unbound, Second Edition: Principles, Practices, and Prospects Stephen Bronner The Radical Luhmann Hans-Georg Moeller Hindu Widow Marriage Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar

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...

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