AltWeeklies Wire
Social Plaguesnew
What The Plague can teach us about ISIS, Gaza and Ferguson.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
09-24-2014 |
Books
Tags: Albert Camus
Elements of Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's Magicnew
Love in the Time of Cholera exhibits a special kind of realism.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
05-13-2014 |
Books
Tags: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard Illuminates Putin’s Motivationnew
Recent land grab reflects themes in Russian theater.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
03-26-2014 |
Books
Tags: Anton Chekhov
The God Particle and T.S. Eliotnew
At the metaphysical crossroads.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
11-07-2013 |
Books
The Bluest Eyes and Obama's legacynew
Toni Morrison's fiction shows there might be more to Washington dysfunction that straight politics.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
09-30-2013 |
Fiction
Tags: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Seasons of Migration: Arab Spring Perspectivenew
From the grave, literary icon Tayeb Salih deftly elucidates the underlying social forces propelling the Arab Spring conflicts.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
08-08-2013 |
Fiction
Sonny's Bluesnew
The struggles explored in James Baldwin's short story mirror those present in Trayvon Martin's killing.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
07-01-2013 |
Books
Tags: James Baldwin, Trayvon Martin
Six Days of the Condornew
James Grady's 1974 pop thriller has some striking similarities to the Boston Marathon bombing.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
05-21-2013 |
Fiction
Tags: James Grady
Lee on Literature: The Awakeningnew
How the 1899 literary classic The Awakening by Kate Chopin relates to the reform challenges faced by the new Pope Francis I.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
04-22-2013 |
Fiction
Tags: Pope Francis
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydenew
How industrialization helped to foster the compartmentalization of "good" and "evil," a duality that continues to challenge modern figures such as James Holmes and Oscar Pistorius.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
03-14-2013 |
Fiction
Tags: Robert Louis Stevenson
Lee on Literature: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestnew
How Ken Kesey's book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, helped to significantly change public opinion about the value of state mental institutions.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
02-08-2013 |
Books
Tags: Ken Kesey
Storm of Steelnew
Recognizing military transformations and their importance was a powerful lesson presented by Ernst Junger in his 1920 World War I memoir, Storm of Steel, a lesson that contemporary American leaders should carefully consider.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
10-22-2012 |
Fiction
Tags: Ernst Junger
Revisiting Vonnegut's Player Pianonew
You got to hand it to Kurt Vonnegut: he predicted the destructive power of automation over 60 years ago, a warning that is applicable today.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
10-01-2012 |
Fiction
Tags: Kurt Vonnegut
Lee on Literature: Atlas Shruggednew
Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, articulates an essential, underlying divergence in philosophy between Democrats and Republicans and helps explain the current, bitter political disharmony.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
08-30-2012 |
Fiction
Tags: Ayn Rand
Lee on Literature: Profiles in Couragenew
Was private or political gain removed from John F. Kennedy's publication of Profiles in Courage? Was courage actually demonstrated with Chief Justice John Roberts' decision in the Affordable Care Act case of 2012?
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
07-30-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: John Roberts, John Kennedy
