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  • Literature Quiz: Popular Novels

    Literature Quiz: Popular Novels29

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  • Literary Theory Was Corrupted, But There Are Signs of Hope

    Literary Theory Was Corrupted, But There Are Signs of Hope6

    I didn’t have a name for it. I just knew I hated it. That’s how I felt when I first began studying literature at a public university and encountered a morass of muddled ideas about literature, language, and truth that all but spoiled the beauty and art of great books, which was what had caused

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  • Lipstick on a Pig: What Natural Beauty Says About Morality

    Lipstick on a Pig: What Natural Beauty Says About Morality0

    If you’ve ever seen a little girl with a toy makeup kit, you’ve likely seen something akin to a cat who got in a fight and lost – badly. The compilation of green eyeshadow on one eye, blue on the other, hot pink blush, and reddish-brown lipstick may look like a patchwork quilt to adults,

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  • Lip Service to Diversity

    Lip Service to Diversity0

    • October 3, 2012

    “Celebrate diversity.” Chances are you probably heard this or a similar phrase during your life as a student. Many public school mission and vision statements around the country contain a version of this phrase. If they don’t, it’s almost guaranteed that you heard it in the classroom at some point. But, does the American public

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  • Lionel Shriver: PC Police are Infiltrating the Literary World

    Lionel Shriver: PC Police are Infiltrating the Literary World0

    We’ve learned a lot about political correctness in recent years, primarily – let’s be honest – about what it prevents us from doing. Some of those preventions include an inability to wear hoop earrings, win sporting events, have father-daughter dances, or even single out potential terrorists. While we shake our fists and roll our eyes

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  • Lincoln’s Suicide Note

    Lincoln’s Suicide Note0

    The depths of Abraham Lincoln’s misery following the death of fiancée Ann Rutledge is well known. (Lincoln’s close friend Josh Speed provided a detailed and captivating recollection of the Lincoln-Rutledge courtship, an unlikely romance that was nothing short of Shakespearean in both beauty and tragedy.) Lincoln was remarkably frank and open about his persistent “melancholy”, which

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