Literature
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John le Carré’s Knights of the Spy Novel
His Cold War classic Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy turns fifty this month.
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Dune’s Dark Destinies
A new film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s cult classic asks whether heroes truly get to choose their fate.
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A Kafkaesque Centenary
If the German novelist had his way, his famous posthumous work would no longer exist.
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The Moral Meaning of Flannery O’Connor
Her work has been called hard-headed, unsparing, grotesque. It’s also stubbornly anti-secular and deeply orthodox.
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The Enchantment of Don Quixote
Disturbance and wonder transform ordinary life in the work of Miguel de Cervantes.
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The Poetry of Death and Resurrection
This Holy Week, Modern Age’s poetry editor listens to “the Word within / The world.”
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Ray Bradbury, Sci-Fi Traditionalist
The “poet of the pulps” was also a conservative of the heart.
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A Great Individualist
H. L. Mencken may be known as a curmudgeon, but he’s best understood as a conservative.
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Two Hamlets of the 21st Century
The Northman and Fat Ham present tragic and comic reinterpretations of the prince of Denmark’s revenge tale.
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