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Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalyptic Vision

Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell When I think of contemporary writers who focus on violence the way that the Beowulf poet does, novelist Cormac McCarthy comes to mind. One novel of his you may...

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Father-Daughter Separation Dramas

  Catherine Deneuve in Donkey Skin My wonderful daughter-in-law Betsy, in response to one of my posts about father-son relationships, began meditating about father-daughter relationships on her own...

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Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys

Terence Stamp as Billy Budd In Lake Woebegone, all the women are strong and all the men good looking. Last Monday I listed my ten favorite strong female characters in literature—or strong women that I...

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The Peace of Wild Things

Tidewater swamp at St. Mary’s College of MD Spiritual Sunday I focus on humans’ relationship to nature in my Introduction to Literature course, and this past semester many students wrestled with the...

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Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalyptic Vision

Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell When I think of contemporary writers who focus on violence the way that the Beowulf poet does, novelist Cormac McCarthy comes to mind. One novel of his you may...

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Father-Daughter Separation Dramas

  Catherine Deneuve in Donkey Skin My wonderful daughter-in-law Betsy, in response to one of my posts about father-son relationships, began meditating about father-daughter relationships on her own...

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Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys

Terence Stamp as Billy Budd In Lake Woebegone, all the women are strong and all the men good looking. Last Monday I listed my ten favorite strong female characters in literature—or strong women that I...

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The Peace of Wild Things

Tidewater swamp at St. Mary’s College of MD Spiritual Sunday I focus on humans’ relationship to nature in my Introduction to Literature course, and this past semester many students wrestled with the...

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How To Reflect upon the Death Penalty

Matt Damon in “All the Pretty Horses” Sordid news regarding the death penalty continues to make its way into the national headlines. First there was the schizophrenic Missouri man missing twenty...

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Be Afraid of Trump’s Fear of Being Mocked

Tuesday Several reasons have been given for Donald Trump disavowing the Paris Climate Agreement, but one in particular stands out: he wanted to get back at those European leaders that he thought were...

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Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalyptic Vision

Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell When I think of contemporary writers who focus on violence the way that the Beowulf poet does, novelist Cormac McCarthy comes to mind. One novel of his you may...

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Father-Daughter Separation Dramas

  Catherine Deneuve in Donkey Skin My wonderful daughter-in-law Betsy, in response to one of my posts about father-son relationships, began meditating about father-daughter relationships on her own...

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Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys

Terence Stamp as Billy Budd In Lake Woebegone, all the women are strong and all the men good looking. Last Monday I listed my ten favorite strong female characters in literature—or strong women that I...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
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The Peace of Wild Things

Tidewater swamp at St. Mary’s College of MD Spiritual Sunday I focus on humans’ relationship to nature in my Introduction to Literature course, and this past semester many students wrestled with the...

View Article

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Clik here to view.

How To Reflect upon the Death Penalty

Matt Damon in “All the Pretty Horses” Sordid news regarding the death penalty continues to make its way into the national headlines. First there was the schizophrenic Missouri man missing twenty...

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Be Afraid of Trump’s Fear of Being Mocked

Tuesday Several reasons have been given for Donald Trump disavowing the Paris Climate Agreement, but one in particular stands out: he wanted to get back at those European leaders that he thought were...

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From Frontier Racism to Wall Racism

Wednesday New Yorker writer Francisco Cantu has alerted me to an important book on the role that the frontier plays in the American imagination. Greg Gandin’s The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to...

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License to Act with Impunity

Illus. for Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Monday I’ve been reflecting upon a recent E.J. Dionne column about living in “an age of impunity.” Borrowing the phrase from International Rescue Committee...

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