Dustin Lovell is a teacher in California, with a Master’s in English Literature.
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by Mallard Columnist · Published April 29, 2022 · Last modified April 25, 2022
Although [Dostoevsky] often gave the benefit of the doubt to the moral idealism of the younger generation of radicals—assuming their hearts, if not their methods, were in the right place—in The Devils he nonetheless skewers the radical ideology and his generation and the next’s culpability for it.
“Knock, knock—who’s there?” Whenever one of my tutorial students is assigned (or, let’s be honest, barely mentions) Macbeth, I go into a certain and by now well-rehearsed tangent on how Shakespeare’s arguably darkest play...
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by Mallard Columnist · Published February 15, 2022 · Last modified February 13, 2022
A new film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy, Joel Coen’s 2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth is the director’s first production without his brother Ethan’s involvement. Released in select theaters on December 25, 2021, and...
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by Jake Scott · Published January 1, 2022
Every year, the Mallard asks its contributors to reflect on the last twelve months, and the next twelve to come. We are very grateful that this year, as terrible as it may have been,...
by Mallard Columnist · Published December 23, 2021 · Last modified December 21, 2021
“A merry Christmas, Bob!” said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. “A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for...
A few weeks ago, a certain tweet claiming that it was impossible for conservatives to make art made the rounds of Twitter. Like too many in the mainstream culture, its sender erroneously assumed that...
Forgive me if I’ve gushed a bit about two of my favorite books, though perhaps discussions of timeless art are just what we need when all we hear about is the present times.
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by Mallard Columnist · Published September 6, 2021 · Last modified September 8, 2021
“This was what distinguished Maria Alexandrovna from her rivals: at critical moments she never allowed any concern about a possible scandal to prevent her from doing something, on the principle that success justifies everything.”...
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by Guest Contributor · Published June 8, 2021 · Last modified June 6, 2021
We’ve all felt it—the mixed excitement and dread at hearing a beloved book is set to be made into a movie. They might do it right, capturing not only key plot events but also...
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by Jake Scott · Published April 22, 2021 · Last modified April 28, 2021
Written in the 1660s, John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the type of book I imagine one could spend a lifetime mining for meaning and still be left with something to learn. Its being conceived...
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Stupid Nationalist Stunts │ David Bone
10 Jun, 2018
