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Back in the Day
Reminiscing with the Troubadours… For the first time in many moons, the fab five were all present for Tuesdays with the Troubs – this time to reminisce about the halcyon days of their youth. In a touching and personal episode, get to a glimpse of the Troubadours as boys. Who held a paper route? Who was an avid baseball card collector? Who walked 10 miles to school uphill both ways, barefoot? Ok, nearly barefoot.
Günther Fetzer legt die grundlegend überarbeitete und stark erweiterte Auflage seiner Geschichte des Taschenbuchs vor
Hinweis von Redaktion literaturkritik.de zu Günther Fetzer: Das Taschenbuch. Geschichte – Verlage – Reihen UTB für Wissenschaft, Stuttgart 2019
Literatur und Leben
Mit „Nullsumme“ legt Joyce Carol Oates zwölf Stories zwischen Gegenwartsdiagnose und Dystopie vor Rezension von Werner Jung zu Joyce Carol Oates: Nullsumme. Stories Blessing Verlag, München 2025
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“To Kill a Mockingbird” — Week 7 | Testimony, Rhetoric, and Credibility
Reading: Chapters 18–20
34. American Psycho: Murder, Trump, and New York City
Why was the book so heavily censored on publication? Is the novel gratuitously violent? And, what happened when Tabby met Bret Easton Ellis?
Henri de Lubac on Vatican II’s Dei Verbum w/ Dr. David Grumett
Dei Verbum is one of the most famous and pivotal works of Vatican II and thanks to the newly translated Divine Revelation, English speakers can now read Henri de Lubac’s commentary on this Constitution on Divine Revelation.
Kirchenkritik, Antisemitismus und ein Lob der Prostitution
Oskar Panizzas „Vermischte Schriften“ sind zwar oft scharfzüngig, aber mindestens ebenso oft widerwärtig Rezension von Rolf Löchel zu Oskar Panizza: Vermischte Schriften Teil 1-4 Günther Emigs Literatur-Betrieb, Niederstetten 2025
Wer hat Juliane Brunner ermordet?
In Caroline Seibts Thriller „Weil sie lügt“ zerbricht eine Familie nach dem Verschwinden der ältesten Tochter Rezension von Dietmar Jacobsen zu Caroline Seibt: Weil sie lügt. Thriller | Von Glauser-Preisträgerin Caroline Seibt Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, München 2026
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Bachmann-Preis: »Falschaussagen« und »Polemik« - Tingler-Interview sorgt für Aufregung
Die Aufregung über das SPIEGEL-Interview mit Philipp Tingler zum Bachmannpreis ist groß. Von »Falschaussagen« und »Polemik« ist in Repliken die Rede. Deutschlandfunk und Süddeutsche berichten über die Reaktionen. Die neue Jury-Sprecherin Insa Wilke nimmt ausführlich Stellung. Und Thomas Strässle stellt klar, dass sein Rückzug aus der Jury nicht mit Insa Wilke zu tun habe. Hier klicken und weiterlesen: »Bachmann-Preis: »Falschaussagen« und »Polemik« – Tingler-Interview sorgt für Aufregung« >
Ghosts in the Machine
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity, by Paul Kingsnorth. Thesis, 368 pages, $32 The historian of science E.J. Dijksterhuis memorably characterized the scientific revolution of the early modern period as a “mechanization of the world picture.” What did this amount to? And what was the character of the previous world
States of Grace
Several times in Love and Virtue in a Secular Age, Ralph C. Hancock commends his chief interlocutor, the French political philosopher Pierre Manent, for his “humble audacity.” That is equally an attribute of Hancock’s own book. A professor of political science at Brigham Young University, Hancock has significantly advanced one of Manent’s core projects—that of
Blowing Off The Odyssey
After watching Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in a sold-out IMAX theater, my husband and I were heading for the exit when we were attacked by smiling employees brandishing free rolled-up posters. Raising our shields, we broke through their phalanx, leaped aboard our vessel moored in the parking lot, and sailed homeward with only a few
The Married Vine
The first marriage in Tuscan history was not between a man and a woman but between a vine and a tree. Before the Etruscans cleared these hills, they were dense with oakwood, through which wild grape vines climbed naturally toward the canopy, wedded to the forest in which they grew. The Etruscans formalized that marriage.
Fresh Prince
Michael Anton’s Studies in Machiavellian Political Philosophy is an engaging, intelligent, and sobering work. Anton believes or hopes that the book’s essays “form something like a coherent whole.” This characterization is at once modest and immodest as befits the volume, which gratefully and repeatedly acknowledges Harvey Mansfield (to whom the book is dedicated), Leo Strauss,
Earthly Paradise
That citizens of the United States think at all about the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is astonishing. Americans prefer the useful to the theoretical, the modern to the medieval, the plain sense to the allegorical, the unencumbered to the embellished. We are everything Dante is not. And yet Dante is widely read here, especially
Let My People Go
Cornell professor emeritus Barry Strauss is what I like to call a “no-frills” historian. By “no frills,” I mean without capital-T Theories: though receptive to the latest techniques and discoveries, Strauss mercifully lacks the voguish academic obsession with reading everything through the lens of the latest fixation. His standard for weighing historical evidence and constructing
The Frank Meyer-Leo Strauss Correspondence
Although Leo Strauss (1899–1973) studied political philosophy almost exclusively, he was also interested in practical politics throughout his life. He was a young Zionist, recalling in his 1970 talk “A Giving of Accounts,” “When I was 17, I was converted to Zionism—to simple, straightforward political Zionism.” Later, as a professor at the University of Chicago,
Cowboys and Carpetbaggers
Lonesome Dove, Yellowstone, and the closing of the frontier.
The Strenuous Game
In Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet, Dickinson State University professor of history Michael Patrick Cullinane profiles T.R.’s informal circle of advisers—men whose clustering around the president, I would argue, reveals a style of governance both new and ancient. The “Tennis Cabinet” got its name from those advising Roosevelt on matters of government before, after,
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