Your Brain on Books
Brainy commentary on randomly selected books by a retired college English prof.
Friday, July 2, 2021
My Grandmother's Hands
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My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (MSW, LICS...
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Ebola, Salem Witchcraft, COVID, "Young Goodman Brown," and "Spectral Evidence"
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Some six years ago I compared the Ebola scare of the time to the Salem witchcraft trials, as chronicled by Marian Starkey...
Saturday, October 3, 2020
Can Fiction Be True?
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We all know that “Fiction” is a factually-false, made-up, imaginary story and “Non-fiction” is a fact-based narrative or...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
"Reluctance"
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Reluctance By Robert Frost Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have ...
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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This dystopian novel by George Orwell was first published in 1949. I read it in the 1960s and taught it to first-year c...
Monday, July 8, 2019
Mueller Report
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The much-touted Mueller Report ( Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election) was publicly re...
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