Already benumbed by attack ads this election year? Never fear: the philosophers’ presidential campaigns will enable you to appreciate the absurdity of political machinations anew. Recommended viewing order: the Kant Attack Ad, the Nietzsche Attack Ad (above), and then Kierkegaard in ’08. (Thanks, Maximus.) I’m already imagining the literary critics version.
Between Lush Life, Amok, and my granddad’s shooting, last week was unexpectedly devoted to crime here at MaudNewton.com. Today I’m extending that theme by giving away a full set of my friend Laura Lippman’s fifteen Baltimore crime novels. (Another Thing to Fall, the latest in her Tess Monaghan series, appeared earlier this month.) My favorite of Lippman’s books is . . .
A new film based on Huxley’s seminal Brave New World means the rest of his work may also get some attention.
Anne Babeau Gardiner purports to survey feminist literary criticism for the Home of American Intellectual Conservatism. (Via.)