Poetry of Neat Conceits
Dunn more or less meets the bar he has set for himself. The question then becomes how a reader comes to terms with a poet who seems content with the strategies and forms he has cultivated for himself.
Reviews
A Tale of Henry VIII’s Other Thomas
One of the great achievements of this book is to show England being taken down a road not of its formidable ruler’s choosing.
The Roar of the War For Those Who Could Not Hear It
If the Civil War did little for deaf Americans’ collective consciousness, Lang points out that it offered men and women the chance to prove themselves as autonomous individuals.
The America That the Warner Brothers Made
Warner Bros is at its most stimulating when it regards the studio’s movies, stars, and filmmakers as both passive reflections and active agents of a monolithic American cultural identity.
Within Our Gates
May aims to demonstrate that, over the past fifty years or more, there has emerged a “new consensus” that Americans have everything to fear—especially from each other—despite the fact that in very many ways their world has grown safer.
How Old Jim Crow Inspired the Nazis
Hitler’s American Model is invaluable in comprehending the creative political maneuvering deployed, across time and international boundaries, to satisfy this racism.
Charles de Gaulle and the France He Made
Though Jackson has a generally favorable opinion of de Gaulle, he makes no attempt to hide his difficult personality and his craftily dishonest manipulation of people and institutions. The result is both even-handed and definitive.
The Universality of White Racism
Given that the book was written for a white audience, how did I feel as a person of color reading it? The simple answer is mixed.
Is Rape the New Campus Rage?
Unwanted Advances is a provocative, if frustrating, read.
A Sisterhood of Small Secrets
Secret Sisterhood offers little in the way of secrets and even less in the way of female literary friendship.