Lord of the Flies, The Handmaid’s Tale, and To Kill a Mockingbird were removed from some libraries in Canada as harmful to some staff and students. (Setting aside for a moment the idea that a book can be harmful.) We will always make value judgments about the books we read and especially the books we […]
Archives for October 2021
Why Mary Moody Emerson Intrigues me
2021-10-27 · by ·
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s aunt intrigues me. Her name is Mary Moody Emerson. Emerson biographer Robert Richardson, Jr. says that Mary provided the single most important part of his education, even in comparison to his curriculum at Harvard, then as now where the elite was educated. Waldo called her the “best writer in Massachusetts” in her […]
Influential sci-fi?
2021-10-20 · by ·
There was a time when I read a lot of science fiction. How much has tapered off in recent years as I’ve pursued other interests in reading. But I still think my heart is with science fiction. While on its surface it can seem like it’s all aliens, lasers, robots, and mad scientists, much of […]
