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Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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| A Marriage at Sea was irresistible to me on premise alone. I’ve always harbored a weakness for grand-adventure narratives—the sort where ordinary people decide not to let life calcify around them. Maurice and Maralyn’s decision in 1972 to sell everyt ...more | |
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Exit Zero is one of those collections that will absolutely find its readers—even if I ultimately wasn’t one of them. Marie-Helene Bertino writes with undeniable control and imagination, and there’s real confidence in these stories. The prose is sharp, ...more |
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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature is one of those literary histories that quietly reshapes how you think about books you thought you already understood. As a literature teacher, my own education focused almost entirely ...more |
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The Sunflower Boys is a striking and emotionally grounded debut that manages to hold two immense pressures in the same frame: a boy’s dawning understanding of his own sexuality and a nation’s sudden plunge into war. Set in the early days of Russia’s i ...more |
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| Tigers Between Empires continues my recent streak of exceptional nature writing. I’ve always been fascinated by the Russian Far East, but Jonathan C. Slaght brings that remote and often forbidding landscape vividly to life through the story of the Am ...more | |
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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