Allen Barra’s piece, “What To Kill a Mockingbird Isn’t,” in the June 24th Wall Street Journal took on its author, Harper Lee. Barra, who writes about sports and arts for the paper, contends that the novel isn’t great literature. And we should regret that it is an almost universal requirement for young adults in [...]
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Where the Books Are.
June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Essays
When last year’s sales figures for trade books came out earlier this year, they revealed a modest dip of 3.3% in unit sales from 2008. That varied a bit in terms of format. Trade paper held up better than did both hard cover and mass paperbacks. As usual book sales held up better during this [...]
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“Newspapers and Free Speech.” 2009.
July 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Essays
by Tom Rider.
There will always be threats to free speech in this country from various orthodoxies, be they religious, or political, or social. ‘Speech’ should, of course, always be free in the first amendment sense. However, the kinds of information essential to a working democracy cannot be free in another sense. You can’t have free [...]
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