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From The Unexpected Twist That Makes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein A Bold, Experimental Work Far Ahead of… by Spencer Baum

Everything about the way Shelley structured this novel forces the reader to exercise his own sense of compassion. The first half of the novel makes us think we know who the creature is, and when we find out we wer…

From On Shaming Mobs and Nazi Book Burnings by Spencer Baum

Destroying books is not only a visceral representation of destroying a culture, it is a literal act of destroying ideas. Hoarding and destroying books from libraries, at a time when libraries might be the primary or only…

From We Are All Ebenezer Scrooge by Spencer Baum

…rge scale, as in, the whole-of-his-life scale, all of us must learn and relearn on a smaller scale. We may not be miserly old fools who are reviled by entire communities like Scrooge is, but we all struggle with bitterness, anger, and misery at times. We all, like Scrooge, have our reasons. Dig deep enough in our own Ghosts of Christmas Past and we’…

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The Unexpected Twist That Makes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein A Bold, Experimental Work Far Ahead of…

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Alfred Hitchcock, Umberto Eco, and the Macguffin

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You Are Not Equal. I’m Sorry.

Dina Ley