Dustin Lovell is a teacher in California, with a Master’s in English Literature.
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...
by Guest Contributor · Published March 31, 2021 · Last modified April 28, 2021
[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...
by Guest Contributor · Published March 12, 2021 · Last modified April 28, 2021
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...
by Guest Contributor · Published March 6, 2021 · Last modified April 28, 2021
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...
by Guest Contributor · Published February 4, 2021 · Last modified April 28, 2021
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...
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