Artist: Artistic action by Yves Klein (French, Nice 1928–1962 Paris). Maker: Photographed by Harry Shunk (German, Reudnitz 1924–2006 New York (?)). Make...
Through these "wayfaring" essays both serious and comic, Alan Jacobs muses on aspects of culture impacting the Christian journey, such as: the usefulness and danger of blogging, the world of Harry Potter, the life of trees and much more.
Harry Potter Book Review Essay 100 Words: Drink to the alluring world of Harry Potter! In this essay, we will embark on a magical trip to explore the witching realm created byJ.K. Rowling. With its spellbinding narrative and memorable characters, the Harry Potter series has captured the hearts of millions of compendiums worldwide. Let’s dive ... Read more
In which we skim through new releases to help you out figure out what to read
“Frankly, I don’t mind what they’re reading, Twilight, Harry Potter, whatever. So long as they are reading something there’s at least a chance that one day they’ll move on to something better.” How many times have we heard this opinion expressed? Needless to say the sentiment comes along with the regret that people are reading less and less these days and the notion of a hierarchy of writing with the likes of Joyce and Nabokov at the top and Fifty Shades of Grey at the bottom. Between the two it is assumed that there is a kind of neo-Platonic stairway, such that from the bottom one can pass by stages to the top, a sort of optimistic inversion of the lament that soft porn will lead you to hard and anyone smoking marijuana is irredeemably destined to descend through coke and crack to heroin. The user, that is, is always drawn to a more intense form of the same species of experience.
It's more than getting your ducks in a row.
Okay, so we weren’t there as the Weasley children grew up, all seven of them in that wonderful magical house. But I think we can make some fairly shrewd guesses as to what it was like. After all, one thing is certainly true, and that’s the fact that siblings compete for their parents’ attention. And there were […]
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Martin Amis was one of the pre-eminent novelist-critics of his generation. This remarkable collection of essays and reviews spans over three decades of his literary career. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Waugh, Lowry, Nabokov, F. R. Leavis, V. S. Pritchett, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, Angus Wilson, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Shiva and V. S. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris and John Updike. Other subjects include chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, screen censorship, juvenile violence, Andy Warhol, Hillary Clinton, and Margaret Thatcher. 'A tour de force in which every paragraph uncoils with vertiginous twists and turns, lightning metaphors, genuine learning, unstoppable laughter, and a passionate sense of literary pleasure' Independent
