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When I was small, someone—maybe a librarian or maybe LeVar Burton—read me a story about an artist whose drawings came to life on ...
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A few of you may have followed this annual list ever since I started posting it more than 15 years ago. Many of you have been tuning in long ...
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Editor's Note: The multiyear centenary of World War I has generated a huge and still growing number of books, looking at the subject from ...
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If you have already been following the adventures of LAPD Detective Harry Bosch and, along the way, his half-brother, Mickey Haller ("the Lincoln ...
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Social scientists do much of their work with little fanfare; some make names for themselves as experts on specific areas of concern, but most ...
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I prepared for Calvin College's 2014 Festival of Faith and Writing by reconnecting with an old high school friend, the fiction writer Peter ...
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Some of my earliest memories are connected with church: the sounds and smells and distinctive aura of this place that was more than a place, ...
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Tom Wolfe's The Kingdom of Speech adds to a growing body of popular books on the topic of how language, thought, and culture influence one ...
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With the publication of "Can Poetry Matter?" in 1991, Dana Gioia established himself as a provocative essayist and public intellectual, ...
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We rarely need excuses to read novels as autobiographical. It's easier, after all, to believe that whatever in a fiction smacks of truth—the ...
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For the writing and reading of commentaries, it is the best of times. Of their publishing there is no end, and readers can select from a variety ...
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When I tell people that I recently moved from South Florida, their eyes are full of visions of mega-mansions and gaudy towers. But this, I think, ...
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Marshall McLuhan famously wrote that "the 'content' of any medium is always another medium." The content of print is speech; ...
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The opening pages of Homegoing—Ghanaian American Yaa Gyasi's debut novel—start a fire in Ghana that burns, one way or another, ...
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At a gathering of the conservative organization, The Philadelphia Society, a few years ago, Bradley Birzer gave a talk about Russell Kirk and ...
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Last night I watched Broadway stars perform a ditty about Colonial-era rules for dueling in a mixture of Filipino Tagalog and English. I witnessed ...