The Great Gatsby – Chapter II

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Now begins Chapter II, a very strange and dreamlike chapter full of mythical imagery. Nick travels from West Egg to New York City on the train with Tom Buchanan, who in his typically violent way (“taking hold of my elbow, literally forced me from the car”) disembarks halfway along to take Nick to meet “my [...]

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Hospital Drive

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

An advertisement in the front of the latest issue of VQR caught my eye: the University of Virginia School of Medicine has started a “journal of reflective practice in word and image” called Hospital Drive. From their website: Hospital Drive, a new on-line journal launched in the fall of 2006, encourages original creative work that [...]

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Calling George Orwell

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

From an article in yesterday’s New York Times: A new, long-term hunger strike has broken out at the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, with more than a dozen detainees subjecting themselves to daily force-feeding to protest their treatment, military officials and lawyers for the detainees said. I can’t make any sense out of [...]

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A History of the End of the World by Jonathan Kirsch

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Subtitled “How the most controversial book in the Bible changed the course of Western civilization,” this book covers the origin, sources, themes, and historical influence of the Book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse. Revelation was a controversial book from its first appearance. It is radically different from the rest of the New Testament, [...]

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