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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger reminds me of nothing so much as Harvard Law Professor Michael Sandel’s course on justice and making ethical decisions, especially when choosing between two, equally problematic alternatives. Holsinger’s novel is set in the era of artificial…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons -Barron own blog. Help me out here. I’m struggling with conflicting messages about Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and inspirational leader especially to young, college-age conservatives. In our ever-escalating culture of violence, his horrific assassination has become the latest…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When I was a child, my mother took me on a “cruise” of the Charles River. What do I remember of it? The closer we got to Boston Harbor, the worse the smell. You could see the luminous…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Age of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone by Mariel Gabriel is a lush portrait of the burgeoning world of modern art, especially in Paris, in the early 20th century. If you love Paris, if you love…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier by Maura Jane Farrelly is a perfect book for someone who revels in the process of researching a story, over and above being swept…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After the Last Border by Jessica Goudreau should be required reading for people who fear or loathe strangers coming to the United States to avoid persecution, war and chaos in their home countries. The author tells of two such women, weaving…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford is a quickly unspooling, cinematic mystery set in the fictional city of Cahokia, during the 1920’s. (The real Cahokia had vanished by 1200 C.E., leaving behind only mounds of grass-covered dirt in Illinois, near the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Mountains Sing , a first novel by Vietnamese poet and author Nguyen Phan Que Mai, is a saga about the Tran family, against the backdrop of 20th century Vietnamese history, is told from two perspectives. First is that of grandmother Dieu Lan,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron. Every day, the 45th President of the United States finds a new low to which he can drag down the country, whether in eviscerating the rule of law, subverting our international relations, wantonly pandering conflicts of interest, or rapaciously using…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King is a delicious mix of history and music, against the backdrop of 18th century England. George Frideric Handel had grown up in Halle, Germany, worked…
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