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American Poet Louise Gluck Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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American poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for what the judges described as “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence...
'The Last Million' Review: The Point of No Return
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Barely two months before the opening of the Nuremberg trials, British prime minister Clement Attlee wrote to President Truman about the “displaced persons”—the DPs—of numerous nationalities...
The Great Books: The Catcher in the Rye
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Written in 1951 by J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye is a book that offers a powerful discussion of morality that the world of adults upholds to. It is a novel about an angst-driven teenager,...
'The Zealot and the Emancipator' Review: A Deadly Confrontation -
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‘How does a good man challenge a great evil?” Fittingly, H.W. Brands asks this question at the outset of “The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American...
Political Books: After the Culture War
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The American left dominates nearly every major institution in the country, and yet Donald Trump’s presidency continues to inspire progressives with a revanchist zeal. Tacit and sometimes explicit...
'Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck' Review: The Poison Cup of Gold - WSJ
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In 1937, John Steinbeck began to be disturbed by unannounced visitors at the small cottage north of Monterey that he shared with his wife Carol. Steinbeck had just published “Of Mice and Men,”...
