Tired of the Same Trump-Era ‘Must-Reads’? Read This Instead
We need brighter and more idealistic visions of reading. Concentrate, we should tell ourselves, and thereby feel a little freedom.
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This Is Not a Defense of the Power of Art
There are only three times I remember out and out weeping in response to a book or a movie. I’m not talking about welling up. I put the books in question down and buried my head or stopped the movie so I could go hide in the bathroom. I was knocked off my tracks, interrupted, more than moved.
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Being Bad Is Sad: Bojack Horseman & Boethius
We’re born broken, and yet our wicked choices punish us. Somehow, BoJack the alcoholic, humanoid horse has bumped into Boethius the 6th-century Christian philosopher.
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