A Romantic Case for Anime | Dustin Lovell
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...
Dustin Lovell
Dustin Lovell is a teacher in California, with a Master’s in English Literature.
Eve: The Prototype of the Private Citizen | Dustin Lovell
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...
Shakespeare—That Villainous Abominable Misleader of Youth | Dustin Lovell
[They] Shall now…March all one way, and be no more opposedAgainst acquaintance, kindred, and allies. King Henry IV, Henry IV Part 1, I.1 In her notes laying out the philosophy and character of Ellsworth...
Dostoevsky, 19th-Century Socialism, and the 21st Century: Part 2 | Dustin Lovell
In the previous portion of this two-part article, I examined Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky’s arrest for participation in an illegal socialist printing plot and the changes of belief and perspective that would result. Entering...
Dostoevsky, 19th-Century Socialism, and the 21st Century: Part 1 | Dustin Lovell
I know: even in Los Angeles, CA, I can hear my friends in the UK groan. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky—the dour wing of 19th-century Russian literature, the author whose brilliance is admitted as readily as...
John Galt, Tom Joad, and other Polemical Myths | Dustin L. Lovell
Just about the only titles by Ayn Rand I’d feel comfortable assigning my students without previous suggestion by either student or boss would be Anthem or We the Living, mostly because they both fit...
