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The Book Report;  November 1, 2001 ;     472 words ... ... s Heroic Struggles in the Name of YA Literature * 2001. 176pp. $26.95 hc. Scarecrow ... man. Walter Hogan, the author of this biography, admits that you cannot get a straight ... Readers will enjoy this in-depth biography filled with humorous anecdotes and facts ...

Article: A History of the English Bible as Literature. (Books: ...
The Christian Century;  November 7, 2001 ;     700+ words ...A History of the English Bible as Literature. By David Norton. Cambridge University ... trained in English and comparative literature and the author of histories ranging ... without reducing them to caricature. His biography of the Book becomes a guided tour through ...

Article: Mark Twain: the Lincoln of our ...
World and I;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature." Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the third ... title of "the Lincoln of our American literature," especially in his treatment of race ... escape and freedom in all of American literature. One of the reasons the novel is still ...

Article: Our stillborn renaissance.(American ...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... first essay, the 1836 "Nature," began: "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why ...

Article: Worth the lifting and stacking: further thoughts on James ...
Quadrant;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Quadrant and contributes to a further appraisal. The difficulty of an agreed appraisal is illustrated in the two recent biographies, Michael Ackland's Damaged Men and Cassandra Pybus's The Devil and James McAuley. McAuley was born in 1917 in Lakemba ...

Article: Katherine Paterson: winner of the 2007 NSK Neustadt Prize for ...
World Literature Today;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... of our four children. The life and work of Paul Farmer is for the "healing of the world." WLT What outside the realm of literature has drawn your attention of late? KP The tragic situation in the Middle East has dominated not only the news but my own thinking ...

Article: Andre Malraux's grand ...
Quadrant;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...MEN WHO HAVE BEEN raised in the potentially suffocating atmosphere of an all-female household occasionally rebel in interesting ways. Truman Capote was one, Hemingway was another, and so was Andre Malraux. But unlike Hemingway, who fashioned himself into a hero eroded by self-loathing, Malraux