Monthly Archives: April 2020
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Many, I’m willing to bet, who love reading, have found themselves during this time thinking about, rereading, or looking at for a first time some one or more of literary pieces centered on or around an epidemic illness, the quarantine one has produced, or both. Katha Pollitt, for example, took up this theme recently in one of her columns in The Nation. I am no exception. I’ve two personal favorites, each Italian: Allesandro Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi and Giovanni Boccaccio’s…..
Recent Posts
- An Exchange over Hugo’s “Les Misérables”
- JONATHAN FRANZEN’S “CROSSROADS”: SHOULD WE WANT A TRILOGY OF IT?
- SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- LOVE & THE FIRST LINE
- FOR PHILIP ROTH’S “EVERYMAN”
Recent Comments
- Henry Allen on the current project
- MaryAnne O'Neil on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- Robert Arnold Johnson on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- Robert Arnold Johnson on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- Susan Pickett on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
