His latest – and possibly last – book tackles America’s foreign policy before and after 9/11. Could it also serve as an antidote to the fragmented attention and political duplicity of our current moment?
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Early readers knew Moby-Dick for what it was: an extreme and ambitious form of popular genre fiction.
Melville’s epic novel about life aboard a wayward whaling ship holds lessons for the climate crisis today.
The problems and ideologies that define American culture were formed in the 19th century.
How to deal with a world that is going a bit off-kilter? Some classic texts can give a few pointers.
While clear-eyed about the country’s injustices, Melville never succumbed to cynicism. On the author’s bicentennial, American readers could use a dose of his ability to fuse realism with idealism.
To mark Independence Day, an Australian perspective on why - 180 years on - Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic political text is a must-read.
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