Tag Archives: Ulysses

You read banned books, but by whom?

By which I mean: BANNED by whom? Looking online for a definitive listing of most-often banned or censored books yields a panoply of titles not necessarily candidates for a pantheon. At right I’ve stacked the heavyweights most often resisted for … Continue reading

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Wal-mart drives its chariot of predatory commerce over bones of Civil War dead

WAL-MART wants to build a Virginia super-center on the edge of the memorial site of one of the most consequential battles of the Civil War. The Wilderness marked the first engagement between Generals Lee and Grant, ignited a forest fire … Continue reading

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Staging Homer for Generation Simpson

THE ODYSSEY, A STAGE VERSION- Greek myth would be no more complicated than JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, or GRG Lucas, but I suspect that to impress Homer unto modern audiences might have the disagreeable consequence of educating them. This weekend … Continue reading

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Those subversive librarians…

The Jungle, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, A Farewell to Arms, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Howl, As I Lay Dying, The Age of Reason, The Origin of Species, … Continue reading

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