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- Azar Nafisi’s book Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Hal Shows’ Essay Collection The Bandshell Project
- Summary of the 2021 Biography of Philip Roth
- Review of Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians
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The Past is a Foreign Country - Stendhal’s The Life of Henry Brulard
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- Anhinga Press Poetry Anthology North of Wakulla
- Harry Morris’ Landmark Study—Last Things in Shakespeare
- Thomas E. Ricks’ new book First Principles
- Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education
- Lionel Trilling’s Book The Liberal Imagination
- The Battle of Hastings: and Literature Hasn’t Been the Same Since
- Kotsilibas-Davis’ Biography of Maurice Barrymore
- On Great Literature (Featuring T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets)
- Plato’s Phaedo and Its Theory of Forms: Conversations and Language Games
- P. V. LeForge’s Principle of Interchange
- Bennett Cerf’s At Random
- Myrtle Scharrer Betz’s Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise
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- John Sitter’s Literary Loneliness
- Hintikkas’ Investigating Wittgenstein
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- Simon Callow’s “Alternative Autobiography” My Life in Pieces
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- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Novel The Leopard
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- Notes on Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister
- Georg Henrik von Wright’s Wittgenstein
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- Book Review of The Secret Lives of Codebreakers
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- The Ides of March
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- The Albert Effect
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Hal Shows’ Essay Collection The Bandshell Project
Book Review Title: The Bandshell Project Author: Hal Steven Shows Publisher: Black Bay Books Date: June 11, 2015 ISBN: 978-1514264546 Collections of essays are among my favorite kinds of books. Hal Shows’ The Bandshell Project is a great example. The … Continue reading
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Anhinga Press Poetry Anthology North of Wakulla
Book Review Title: North of Wakulla: An Anhinga Anthology Editors: Donna Decker and Mary Jane Ryals Publisher: Anhinga Press Date: September 1, 1989 ISBN: 978-0938078302 The poetry anthology North of Wakulla fulfills and rewards the reader with its outstanding assemblage … Continue reading
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Harry Morris’ Landmark Study—Last Things in Shakespeare
Book Review Title: Last Things in Shakespeare Author: Harry Morris Publisher: Florida State University Press Date: January 1, 1985 ISBN: 978-0813007946 The book is an eschatological analysis of several Shakespeare plays: Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth Romeo and Juliet A … Continue reading
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Plato’s Phaedo and Its Theory of Forms: Conversations and Language Games
Title: Plato’s Phaedo Author: Plato, Translated by Hugh Tredennick Publisher: London: Penguin Books; First Edition Date: January 1, 1954 ASIN : B0017DM39A My first question upon reading Plato’s Phaedo was, “How and why did Plato invent the Theory of Forms?” … Continue reading
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P. V. LeForge’s Principle of Interchange
Book Review Title: Principle of Interchange and Other Stories Author: P. V. LeForge Publisher: Paperback Rack Books Date: April 1, 1990 ISBN: 978-0962487804 A collection of sixteen stories, Principle of Interchange holds its share of surprises, mostly pleasant surprises. The … Continue reading
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Myrtle Scharrer Betz’s Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise
Book Review Title: Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise: The Story of Caladesi Island Author: Myrtle Scharrer Betz Publisher: University of Tampa Press Date: October 1, 2007 ISBN: 978-1597320337 Myrtle Scharrer Betz wrote Yesteryear in 1981. She describes her father’s life … Continue reading
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Hintikkas’ Investigating Wittgenstein
Book Review Title: Investigating Wittgenstein Author: Jaakko and Merrill B. Hintikka Publisher: Blackwell Date: 1986 ISBN: 978-0631141792 The book Investigating Wittgenstein by Jaakko and Merrill B. Hintikka was special to me for several reasons: Jaakko Hintikka was one of the … Continue reading
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R. Bruce Bickley’s Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study
Book Review Title: Joel Chandler Harris Author: R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. Publisher: Brown Thrasher Books, The University of Georgia Press Year Published: 1978 ISBN: 978-0820331850 Professor Bickley does a magnificent job bringing out the heart and soul of his subject, … Continue reading
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Notes on Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister
Book Recommendation Title: Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister Author: R.M. Dancy, W.H. Werkmeister, et al. Publisher: Springer; 1993 Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister is a wonderful book! I attended the … Continue reading
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Georg Henrik von Wright’s Wittgenstein
Book Review Title: Wittgenstein Author: Georg Henrik von Wright Published: University of Minnesota Press 1982 Ludwig Wittgenstein was G. H. von Wright’s professor, mentor, and friend. After Wittgenstein died in 1951, Wright became literary executor and spent thirty years collecting, … Continue reading
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