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Irving Howe
Birth date: June 11, 1920
Died: May 05, 1993
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Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 12 years ago
Kafka's works all read like parables, but what if anything they are parables of is obscure. The typical Kafka tropes are here. The dreamlike matter-of-factness of the surreal, the arcane bureaucracy, the continual circling of a goal that never comes any closer and whose purpose is obscure. There...
Liv's Reads
Liv's Reads rated it 12 years ago
This was a bit exhausting! But I finished!!
MEslaymaker
MEslaymaker rated it 13 years ago
You’re more likely to know William F. Buckley, Jr., than Michael Harrington, and I’ll use the former as a point of contrast and departure. Both attended Yale in the 1940s, Buckley as an undergrad, Harrington in law school. Each commenced his education as a conservative Republican at a liberal univer...
MEslaymaker
MEslaymaker rated it 13 years ago
You’re more likely to know William F. Buckley, Jr., than Michael Harrington, and I’ll use the former as a point of contrast and departure. Both attended Yale in the 1940s, Buckley as an undergrad, Harrington in law school. Each commenced his education as a conservative Republican at a liberal univer...
jbradway
jbradway rated it 13 years ago
This is an excellent companion to the World War One readings I've been doing for the past several weeks, a subject pretty unknown to me.The Brothers Ashkenazi follows the lives of twin brothers in Lodz, Poland from the latter 1800's to just past the first world war. Max, the striver and schemer, wor...
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