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ON PAUL TILLICH: PART 3 [by Matthew Yeager]
HELLO BEST AMERICAN BLOG READER(S). Good to be back for my third installment; today begins the draft, some of the most exciting few days of the year for NFL fans. Even during the Bengals’…
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Split, a poem for an April night [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I like the idea that if I post this now I will have posted on Wednesday. I've got nine minutes. So here's a poem, first published at The New Republic last year.…
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Young Badboy Brown (by Mitch Sisskind)
Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Young Goodman Brown" powerfully depicts the experience of what could be called disillusionment — but that's putting it too mildly. What the title character experiences is existential shock at the realization…
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PAUL TILLICH: PART 2 [by Matthew Yeager]
HELLO BLOG-READERS! I was all set to begin today with the statement, “Paul Tillich is not a great prose stylist,” and then go on to talk about what exactly it is that makes his…
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Shine a Light on It, Laura . . .
Say your friend becomes obsessed with bears and because you like this about her you want to encourage the obsession by providing her with a little bear decor. Wouldn't she like these lamps to…
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Oh, to be in England now that April’s there . . . [by Catharine Stimpson]
On April 14, getting on a crowded flight for London, I was obsessively if sweetly chanting to myself, "I will be in England now that April's there." We landed at Heathrow on the morning…
