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For lovers of language and epic drama, Homer and the Bible brook few competitors. For readers up for a slightly higher degree of difficulty, William Cowper’s eighteenth-century English translation of the Odyssey provides a second layer of beauty. Not only do you get Homer’s genius. You also soak in the resonant and ironic tones of an English dialect that is familiar enough to be almost completely understood but also different enough from modern American dialect to bring astonishing and pleasing insight into the language we speak. Continue Reading »

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As your grandfather told you, you can’t always judge a book by its cover. Nor, these days, does the title of a magazine always clue you into the content that begins on page three. Continue Reading »

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Not for those in search of deeply searching dramatic moments, Paris When It Sizzles pits the inimitable Audrey Hepburn over against William Holden, who proves his mettle more convincingly than, say, George Peppard in the better of the two films, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Continue Reading »

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While living for 16 years in Costa Rica, my family and I noticed an ever-increasing flow of bronzed surfers through the country’s main airport. Then my sons started to surf.

I figured I’d better pay attention. Continue Reading »

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If you’re just a tad cynical, you might expect that the new MEN’S VOGUE might concentrate on self-possessed metrosexuals covered with Armani, leering at the camera, and wishing they had a life. Continue Reading »

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This self-described ‘Handbook of the American Entrepeneur’ is one fine piece of work. I read it cover to cover upon arrival. Continue Reading »

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Fast Company is a good magazine for the inquisitive entrepeneur, don’t get me wrong.

But it poses a little too much for my tastes. The semi-gloss paper, the unconventional size sheets, the avant-garde graphics, the just slightly off-the-wall article selection … it’s all a convincing fashion statement. Continue Reading »

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Not every publication gets to use the name ‘Harvard’ in their masthead. It’s a perk that comes with the territory and banks on the accumulated legacy of many generations of excellence. Continue Reading »

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This 47-year-old father of two teenage guys is happy that my guys have Breakaway.

This Focus on the Family ‘magazine for teen guys’ covers topics like spirituality, sports, music, gaming, maintaining sexual purity, all from a Christian worldview. Continue Reading »

For the very sensitive, the sages’ reflections on the paradigmatic foreign woman make for tough reading.

‘It just goes to show you’—the vocabulary of offended morality leaps too easily to the lips—’how bigoted, sexist, and self-excusing religious men can be.’ Continue Reading »