Review excerpts re Hunting Captain Ahab
Eaton portrait of HM, hung in Houghton Library, Harvard Someone has been searching for reviews of my book on the Melville Revival, so I dug up a summary of review excerpts prepared for the second...
View ArticleThe Donkey Serenade and Buffett’s Rule
Illustrated: Joe’s parents sing “A Fellow Needs a Girl” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Allegro (1947). For The Donkey Serenade, see this clip:...
View ArticleDiscovery anxiety
Joyce Kozloff Map This blog is about mental health and idealization of families (for a previous and related blog see http://clarespark.com/2013/01/17/bondage-and-the-family/); but this one emphasizes...
View Article“Totalitarianism”
I started out today thinking about chastising the careless use of the term “tolitarianism” by both Left and Right—who generally accuse their opponents of the T word. It is rather like a Nazi sign or a...
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