The Hedgehog’s Array: October 2, 2015
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
T. S. Eliot on Psychology and the Modern Novel
Eliot credits Dostoevsky with peering into the abyss at least as intently as Freud and his acolytes did, but nevertheless coming away from the experience with a richer, fuller, and, yes, deeper understanding of human psychology.
The Critical Fate of the Major Novel
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; even smaller minds complain about the rest of these people.
The Hedgehog’s Array: September 25, 2015
Posted on September 25, 2015
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
Nature Writing Gets Personal
Posted on September 23, 2015
Image: Cover detail from H Is for Hawk, the 2014 memoir by Helen Macdonald.
After situating themselves in a “wild” context, both women do what the entire history of nature writing has implicitly instructed them not to do: they bring their emotional backpacks into the landscape.
Can Evangelicals Agree With Bernie Sanders?
Posted on September 18, 2015
Image: Bernie Sanders speaks at Liberty University; C-SPAN video.
Bernie Sanders at Liberty University is more than a momentary truce in the culture war.