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Book Review: Sacagawea’s Nickname

Posted on August 28, 2024 by nathanalbright

Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays On The American West, by Larry McMurty When one reads a book like this, it is important to know what the purpose of it is, and what the author was trying to accomplish by writing it. I … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Panem Companion

Posted on November 4, 2023 by nathanalbright

The Panem Companion: From Mellark Bakery To Mockingjays, by V. Arrow How much you get out of this book will depend in large part on your tolerance of goofy fan theories that have a thin veneer of scholarly research about … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Brave Companions

Posted on July 6, 2021 by nathanalbright

Brave Companions: Portraits In History, by David McCullough As is frequently the case with historians, books are made out of the articles that authors have published elsewhere. These feasts on scraps are especially notable with posthumous works, as authors like … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Way Of Imagination

Posted on January 16, 2021 by nathanalbright

The Way Of Imagination: Essays, by Scott Russell Sanders In reading this book, I was struck by the fact that there are very real reasons why it is that leftists go wrong the way that they do. This author fancies … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Essay: A Critical Memoir

Posted on January 16, 2021 by nathanalbright

Essay: A Critical Memoir, by Donald Revell It is a shame I do not know who this author is, because it might make at least some sense how it is that someone who has published a great many works seems … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Ideal Of Culture

Posted on November 23, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Ideal Of Culture: Essays, by Joseph Epstein I must admit that I did not know anything about the author before reading this book. Sometimes that can be dangerous, but in this case the result of reading this book was … Continue reading →

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Book Review: How To Be Alone

Posted on November 23, 2020 by nathanalbright

How To Be Alone: Essays, by Jonathan Franzen One of the reasons why so much of contemporary fiction is metafictional, not that this is necessarily a bad thing, is that so many writers of fiction are so heavily consumed with … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Collection Of Sand

Posted on November 10, 2020 by nathanalbright

Collection Of Sand, by Italo Calvino This is an odd collection, but it is by no means a bad collection. Calvino faces the sort of problem that humanity in general has to deal with, and that is the desire to … Continue reading →

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