Most Read from past 24 hours
CONTRIBUTOR
Catharine Savage Brosman
Catharine Savage Brosman is an American poet, essayist, and scholar of French literature. She is professor emerita at Tulane University, where she held the Gore Chair in French.
Feeding Mind, Pursuing Truth
Catharine Savage Brosman
- Home
- Catharine Savage Brosman
-
-
Articles
-
Views
-
Author's Posts
The Complicated Certainty of Death0
- Culture
- July 19, 2021
The One Certain Thing, by Peter Cooley (Carnegie Mellon University Press; 80 pp., $15.95). In “This Living Hand: A Visitation,” a poem from this outstanding testimony to a husband’s love for his wife and grief at her death, Peter Cooley writes about the crosses each wore. “Before they took your body to be burned/I scooped yours from
READ MORE
Scaramouche: Rogue of the French Revolution0
- Literature
- June 23, 2021
A good historical novel—as Rafael Sabatini’s Scaramouche is—resembles a bridge game, where the hands and strategies are revealed only gradually. History itself unfolds irregularly, with disruptions, false starts, and surprises. Against the backdrop of complicated, vicious, and corrosive events in France in the late 1780s and early 1790s, Sabatini draws his characters from smallscale lives into the great
READ MORE
Understanding the Psychology of the WWII Concentration Camps0
- History
- April 26, 2021
The novelist Martin Amis is the son of Kingsley Amis, whose Lucky Jim (1954) was a spectacular success. Noting the father’s “brilliance and ‘facile bravura,’” Atlantic critic Geoffrey Wheatcroft asserted that Martin “misunderstood his hereditary gifts when he turned from playful comedy to ‘the great issues of our time.’” Among his “great issues” is that of Nazi concentration camps,
READ MORE
Invading Sicily, 19430
- Literature
- February 24, 2021
Sicily ’43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe, by James Holland (Atlantic Monthly Press; 599 pp., $30.00). By 1943, Hitler, given to paranoia and dreading loss of his North African outpost, had become obsessed with territory north of the Mediterranean out of concern that the Allies would gain a foothold in Sicily. With little confidence
READ MORE
Most Read of All Time
How Music Training Speeds Up Brain Development In Children
- Culture
- August 29, 2016
Latest Posts
About Intellectual Takeout
We provide a platform for rational discourse on all aspects of culture, inspiring action that leads to the restoration of a healthy and vibrant America.
Get In Touch With Us
Stay in the Know
Contact Info
Physical Address
8011 34TH Ave S Ste C-26
Bloomington, MN 55425
Mailing Address
PO Box 1244
Minnetonka, MN 55345
Phone
(612) 440-0205
© Copyright Intellectual Takeout 2024