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Book Review
by Ho Lin
"The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy" is a piquant, far-reaching study of tragedy as an art form. Defining the nature of theatrical tragedy is a formidable task; everyone from Aristotle to Nietzsche has taken a crack at it. In his...
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"A Tale Told Softly" is a powerful work that reveals the possible real message in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare may have composed his famous “problem” play The Winter’s Tale for entertainment, but...
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Delightfully saucy, heartfelt, and passionate, these essays probe the place of art in contemporary life. Richard Teleky’s Ordinary Paradise: Essays on Art and Culture is a deeply satisfying collection about the enriching presence of...
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David Mura’s A Stranger’s Journey is a thoughtful, nuanced, necessary look at how the subject of race is handled in fiction, memoir, and the creative writing classroom. Mura’s book has two main goals: to explore questions of race...
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John Okada’s 1957 novel No-No Boy, his only full-length work, was the first novel by a Japanese American to grapple with the aftermath of internment during World War II. Edited by Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung, "John...
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Mark Twain famously spent his later years writing his autobiography, which per his instructions was published a full century after his death, but he always spun stories about his life with varying degrees of accuracy. In the lengthy and...
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Stories have stories, and when these stories are about stories like To Kill a Mockingbird or Frankenstein or Lolita or Charlotte’s Web or another classic, beloved novel, those stories take on great meaning. Of Infinite Jest, in an...
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"Flora of Middle-Earth" resides at the intersection of the mundane and the fantastical. An ambitious labor of love, Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium, by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, marries science...