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Breaking the Frame of the Present

Winslow Homer, Croquet Players, 1865. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.


I have been trying to decide whether the following passage is prophetically insightful or not. See what you think:

A century or so ago, men lived in the pre...

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Narnia in Japan?

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, 2016, Srchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.


I have no idea what prompted me to pick up this book.

Perhaps a sorceror left it lying secretly on my desk? Or maybe I temporarily wandered through...

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Friendship, Betrayal, and Love in the Limberlost


If you learned that your best friend had betrayed you fifteen years ago, how would you react? Forgiveness? Denial? Despair at having been deceived for so long?

Or what if you know that someone else you loved had been betrayed by his...

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The Well-Stocked Bookcase: Sixty American Novels from 1926 to 1986


A few weeks ago, on a brief stopover in Springfield, Illinois, while traveling, I found myself in front of Prairie Archives, an impressive-looking used bookstore where I could surely have dropped a few hours if I’d had them. As it wa...

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Austen as Aristotelian: Brief Concluding Thoughts on "Persuasion"

Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Invitation, Hesitation and Persuasion, ca. 1846. National Gallery of Ireland, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.


Yesterday afternoon and I concluded our Persuasion read-along with a discussion of the last...

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    Professor of Political Science and Dean of Religion, Humanities, and Global Studies at Houghton University. Writes about books, culture, and ideas at "From My Bookshelf."

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    Veteran educator and inveterate lover of all things LIT. “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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