Beyond Cancel Culture
O’Connor, Updike, and the Literature of Self-Recrimination Michial Farmer The recent intra-literati arguments about Flannery O’Connor’s racism are, if nothing else, hard proof that ideas have consequences. Not long after the police killing of George Floyd ignited...
Bair, Beauvoir, and the Becketeers
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir by Deidre Bair. Nan A. Talese, 2019. Hardcover, 368 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Michial Farmer When she set out to write her award-winning biography of Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair had never even read...
New York friends, join @UBookman and guest speaker Dr. Dermot Quinn for a memorial lecture in honor of Gerald Russello, longtime editor of the University Boookman on November 15, at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus: https://ow.ly/VaRh50PRlHF
"[P]roductivity is not the highest good. The highest good is love. That is the true measure of success." -- Elizabeth Bittner reviews Margarita Mooney Suarez's THE WOUNDS OF BEAUTY. @ClunyMedia