MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

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Message from Pope Francis: Read a Novel
The Late Pontiff’s Take on the Power of Literature for Secular and Religious Readers Alike
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Joel J Miller
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Give Us Barabbas! We Are Barabbas!
Reviewing Pär Lagerkvist’s Classic, Nobel-Winning Novel ‘Barabbas’
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Joel J Miller
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Questioning the Greatness of ‘Gatsby’
Is ‘The Great Gatsby’ Fitzgerald’s Masterpiece or, as One Critic Says, ‘Aesthetically Overrated, Psychologically Vacant, and Morally Complacent’?
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Whose Novels Are We Living In?
Is this Philip K. Dick’s World? What about Vonnegut, Percy, O’Connor, or Didion?
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Joel J Miller
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My Book! ‘The Idea Machine’ Is Almost Here
A Book about Books: How They Helped Create Our World and Still Shape Our Future
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3 Ways to Make New Stuff Happen
Lessons in Innovation from Buckminster Fuller, Martin Luther King Jr., Milton Friedman, and Sonny Rollins
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March 2025

Open Thread: Authors You’ve Read Most?
Fiction or Nonfiction, Which Writers Have You Spent the Most Time With?
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Building: How You Can, While You Can
Parallel Visions of Our Work in Willa Cather’s Classic ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’
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Joel J Miller
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A Scrambled Story and a Puzzle to Solve
Inside Vladimir Nabokov’s Head-Scratcher Classic ‘Pale Fire’
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Jeff Goins
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Why Read and Write While the World Burns?
What George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis Teach Us Today
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Suzanne Smith
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Would You Take Life Advice from a Zombie?
Reviewing Anne de Marcken’s ‘It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over’
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The Everyday Madness of Shirley Jackson
Exploring Her Classic Novels: ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle,’ ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ Others
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