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Book Review: The Endless Knot by Gail Bowen
I come back to Bowen's amazing, loving sense of place and belief in the importance of family and friends. That is grace.
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Book Review: The Hard Way by Lee Child
By the time it's over, Reacher has been in a gunfight with submachine guns and buried the bodies with a backhoe.
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Book Review: School Days by Robert B. Parker
Spenser. He cracks wise, he cracks heads, he cracks the case.
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Book Review: The Road to Wigan Pier
Orwell presented British socialism as an unreal vision peddled by marginal people to an untrusting public.
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Book Review: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture by Roger Scruton
Do literature and the arts, like religion, express social emotions and play a vital part in maintaining an ethical culture?
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Review: The Revolt of the Elites - by Christopher Lasch
These arguments fall outside the conventional ideological boxes, joining conservative social ideas with a radical critique of capitalist economics and social institutions.
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Staying Alive
The politics of narcissism ... protest the failure of the world to live up to imagined aesthetic ideals of peace and harmony.
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The Culture of Narcissism - by Christopher Lasch
The Culture of Narcissism, American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations was a best-seller when it was first published in 1979, and it stands as one of the most distinctive works of social criticism and commentary of the last three decades.
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Movie Review: Serenity
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Book Review: Philosophy, A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
The approach is to explain the project of philosophy, and examine a few of the problems it has addressed.
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