Category: Book Reviews
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The Dishonest “Book Banning” Debate
The fact is, our society is no longer remotely puritanical. That’s not really what the debate is about anymore.
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Book Review: Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire
A substantive book on multiculturalism that will hopefully find a wider audience in the center/right sphere.
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Jake Barnes and Robert Cohn’s Friendship in The Sun Also Rises
The antisemitism was always apparent to literary critics, though in earlier times they were perhaps not so preoccupied with this element of The Sun Also Rises.
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: An Eccentric Heroine
Eleanor is at once an elitist and also an outcast, which places her somewhere near Ignatius O’Reilly from Confederacy of Dunces.
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Is Huck Finn Racist?
All this context will fall on deaf ears for those who cannot get past the admittedly jarring use of the racial slur.
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Huck Finn’s “Problematic” Ending
Those who are disappointed in the ending of the book should maybe learn to get a sense of humor and loosen up a bit.
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Huck & Jim’s Friendship in Huck Finn
The more Jim is fully human, the less appropriate the n-word becomes, though that is Huck’s only frame of reference as a Southerner through which to regard Jim.
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Satire & Vernacular in Huck Finn
In terms of craft, nonstandard dialect and irony are two of the weapons in Twain’s arsenal which make Huck Finn such a singular work of art.
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Into the Wild: Adolescent Angst Gone Wrong
In his moral fervor, Christopher McCandless thought he knew a better way of living than the rest of us.
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Howard Hughes as an Old Man: Mental Illness and Decline, Part IV
Hughes’ routine at this point was drugs, films, sleep, and bathroom.