Gift Guide To Seasonal Family Books From Small And Indie Publishers

Small publishers are bringing out new classics and reviving old ones. Check out these Advent and Christmas family books.

Blown Away

Upmarket European novelists make American publishers look classy; the emptier American fiction becomes, the more snobbish it gets. Reactionary content in the form of social description is not a problem, either. Reaction is to European writers as hypocrisy is to Americans. When a European says the unsayable, he allows Americans to discuss the unmentionable. This must explain why Michel Houellebecq (pronounced "Welbeck") is published in English, and why Annihilation, his latest and possibly last novel, is, though frequently dull and afflicted by the incompetences of literary fiction, very much worth reading.

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50 Years After Gulag Archipelago, Soviet-Style Tyranny Threatens The U.S.

Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago offers a disturbing lesson on how unaccountable governments can vitiate human freedom and flourishing.

Book Tells Kids Republicans ‘Don’t Believe In’ Immigrants While Dems Are The Party Of Lunch And Free Stuff

Does your 8-year-old like free things, trees, lunch, and his teacher? Congratulations, he'll make a great Democrat.

A Literary Giant Confronts His Would-Be Assassin

Salman Rushdie's latest book, 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,' is compelling meditation on mortality and free speech.

Classes, Clubs, and Pubs: The World of C.S. Lewis

It is not wrong to say that America made C.S. Lewis. Lewis’s 1942 book The Screwtape Letters was popular in Britain but was initially rejected by American publishers until Macmillan took a chance on it in 1943. It was a huge success. Macmillan quickly brought out his The Problem of Pain and The Case for […]

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12-Plus Books To Read On Your Road Trips And Beachside This Summer

These are not light reads, but they will give you lots to think about while you stare at the waves.

Virginia Multiculturalists Expel Literary Tradition From State English Standards

If you care about literature, good novels, and poems, Virginia's new English Language Arts standards will depress you.

No Country For Old Men Shows Why There Can Be No Compromise With Evil Like Hamas

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Willa Cather’s Nobility

Chasing Bright Medusas is a splendid book, elegantly formulated, casually authoritative, admirably concise, offering a balanced account of a writer I believe the best American novelist of the past century. As its author Benjamin Taylor recounts, Willa Cather did not always receive the most hospitable reception from some of the leading literary critics of her day. But she now no longer needs them, having found full acceptance from that greatest and most stringent of all critics, Time itself, for today, more than 75 years after her death in 1947, her novels and short stories remain immensely readable and significant in a way that Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s and others once better thought of than she no longer do. No one sets out deliberately to write for the ages, but Willa Cather seems to have done just that.

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