Reviews and News:
Henry Green's eccentric portrait of the idle rich.
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The catastrophe of 1917: Max Boot revisits the Russian Revolution.
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How to fix American schools: "The first step is for the federal government to decrease its role."
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Europe's fraught future: "Just five years after winning the Nobel Prize and being championed as a model for the world, the European Union, says Kirchick, is 'crumbling.'"
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In Case You Missed It:
Gilbert Meilaender on Dorothy Sayers's The Man Born to Be King: "On June 4, 1955, C. S. Lewis wrote to Dorothy Sayers to thank her for a pamphlet and letter she had sent him. He noted, in passing, that 'as always in Holy Week,' he had been 're-reading The Man Born to Be King. It stands up to this v. particular kind of test extremely well.' We might, I think, do far worse than imitate Lewis in our own Lenten reading."
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Marjorie Perloff reviews Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry: "His argument is…pure sophistry, cleverly designed to make light of his own uncertainty about the value of the poetry he has composed, and to explain—to himself as to the reader– why he, for one, turned to the novel as a more satisfactory mode of creative expression."
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Materialism cannot account for the mind partly because its definition of matter is too simplistic.
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Keith Miller was the literary editor of The Spectator, an editor for The New Statesman, and a co-founder of London Review of Books—an old-school man of letters and a good father.
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Interview: Ben Domenech talks to Rod Dreher about the Benedict Option.
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Classic Essay: Russell Kirk, "The Quickening of the Imagination"
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