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New Anthony Bourdain Book Traces His Life and Last, Painful Days - The New York Times
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3 years ago
He asked for her mercy. She wrote, “I can’t take this.” She told him she couldn’t stand his possessiveness, and could no longer stay in the relationship. After the next day’s filming, Mr....
Why 'The Sun Also Rises' Is an Oddly Comforting Read Right Now
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FEW NOVELS evoke our current mix of frustrated wanderlust and existential crisis quite like those of Ernest Hemingway. He chronicled the “lost generation” that had come of age against the chaotic...
'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...
'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,”...
'The Princess and the Prophet' Review: An American Bridge to Islam
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Thanks to Iran’s Islamic revolution, 9/11, large-scale immigration and much else, Americans have learned a great deal about the Islam of Muhammad and the Quran over recent decades. Terms such as...
'Who Gets In and Why' and 'The College Conversation' Review: The Price of Admission
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It was an amusing headline—“A Grim Future Beckons: The Pandemic Will Bring Capitalism to the Heart of Academe.” The article, in the Chronicle of Higher Education last month, reported that colleges...
'Wagnerism: Art & Politics in the Shadow of Music' Review: The Outsider
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Great works of art are so powerfully imagined that their intent and expression mold to changing human circumstances. But the operas of Richard Wagner are arguably unique in this regard: No other...
'Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy' Review: Tradition, Yes, and Markets Too - WSJ
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Prudence was the watchword of Edmund Burke, the great 18th-century Irish statesman, except where his own money was concerned. The West’s founding conservative lived his financial life on the edge...
'Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher' Review: An Untouchable Second Act - WSJ
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Moviegoers of a certain age will remember Eliot Ness—the upright law-enforcement figure who battled corruption and organized crime from the 1920s to the ’40s—as portrayed by a tough-talking Kevin...
This teacher's favorite textbooks were taken from her classroom. Her principal did it
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7 years ago
Silverman, a 30-year veteran teacher whose scores deem her one of the best teachers in the state, has been using a textbook called "McDougal-Littell Literature" for a decade, although students...