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Anxious People

ANXIOUS PEOPLE This is a story about the frailties of human beings. The man behind the the story, pulling the strings, is Fredrik...

Comments on Twilight of Democracy

TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY by Anne Applebaum The subtitle of Anne Applebaum’s book, the seductive lure of authoritarianism, suggests that the...

Thoughts on On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Occupying my thoughts for several years are two basic ideas. One is that all beings are equal because when we are born we have the equal...

Seeing Captain Ahab Anew

In Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, Captain Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship The Pequod, lost his leg to a great white whale named...

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, found the seed of her novel in an article on loneliness. Honeyman had...

A Man Called Ove

Ove is an ordinary man, a man of old fashioned values. He sees his worth, a human being's worth, as being self-reliant, being in control...

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