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20 March 2010

The continuing wasteland

Columnist David Brooks of the New York Times in an online chat session a couple of weeks ago on the decline of cultural discourse: “One of […]
18 March 2010

R.S.V.P.? R.V.O.M!

Rand Richards Cooper, writing on the op-edit page of the IHT yesterday, confronts a vexing contemporary social problem. Two responses are necessary: (1) Right on! (2) […]
17 March 2010

St. Patrick’s Day puzzle

Michael Dirda, the Washington Post book critic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, asks: “How is it that this small island has produced so […]
17 March 2010

‘Reading is changing wildly’

Frances Gendlin, a writer who served on the board of trustees of the Library  a few years ago, has been living more recently in Mexico – […]
‘Reading is changing wildly’
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