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Faulkner’s work was deeply embedded in the oral tradition of the south, and has a strong sense of place.

Psychology has greatly broadened its scope since Nietzsche’s day and yet his implied criticism is one the discipline is still wrestling with.

"Rumpelstiltskin" has a much darker story to tell, hidden below its fairy tale surface, a story for every age.

Confronting the Absurd: Existential Fiction brings readers face-to-face with life's uncertainties, paradoxes, and the search for meaning.

(RNS) — Cruelty, plagues and the irrepressibility of a certain ex-president make optimism a tough sell.

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As you progress through life, you meet some amazing people with magnetic personalities and incredible intellect. You think to yourself, “These people are the real deal. Theyre going to make it.” The Askeladds and Canutes in your story begin to take over your narrative.

When future crime novelist Ross Macdonald was not yet six years old, his father⁠ abandoned him and his mother, leaving them penniless in a Vancouver waterfront boarding house. This hardscrabble Canadian childhood would shape the quintessential California writer’s fiction for the rest of his life.

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February’s Review of the Month confronts the new irrationalism and its reactionary tendencies, which find their roots in troubling philosophical and historical…