Dustin Lovell is a teacher in California, with a Master’s in English Literature.
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by Mallard Columnist · Published October 6, 2022 · Last modified September 28, 2022
“Short and easy will be the task of the mere biographer. A life of usefulness, literature, and religion, was not by any means a life of event…to the little disappointments incidental to human life...
Considered by many Jane Austen’s most mature work both in content and style, Persuasion is a novel about handling regret and deriving the best virtue out of a limited circumstance. Having been persuaded to...
Over the recent decade, we have seen a certain type of storyline rise to popularity among critics. The plot usually follows a female character with some type of special power or circumstance who, by...
Columnists / Comment / Dustin Lovell
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...
Columnists / Culture / Dustin Lovell
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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