Sitemap - 2024 - MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚
Final(ish) Post for the Year: My Plan for December
How to Predict the Future Better than a Dolphin
When the Dead Won’t Stay Buried
What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
Meaning in Mystery: Why Noir Speaks in a Morally Ambiguous World
Finding Your Needle in Chesterton’s Haystack
‘Love Triumphs over Violence—Eventually’
Treat or Trick? The Trap of Our Desires
Stark Truth: All the King’s Terrible Choices
Bookish Diversions: Lewis and Tolkien, Pen Pals
What ‘The Invisible Man’ Made Visible to Me
The Stranger Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
All the Time I Need? Writing a Book on Schedule
‘A Chance to Heal and Develop Our Nation’s Soul’
Open Thread: The Most American Character in Fiction?
First Draft, Last Draft: How Hemingway Became Hemingway
Consuming the News, a.k.a. Guzzling the Limbic Cocktail
Bookish Diversions: Type-Oh, Dang It!
Of Course It Still Matters! Why Study Literature Today
Blind Bard? What History Tells Us about ‘Homer and His Iliad’
Open Thread: Favorite Children’s Book?
What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us about Innovation
Fab Chore: Writing about the Beatles and Other Music Greats
Eaten by a Secret: Reckoning after the Cataclysm
Go on, Try It; The Semicolon Isn’t as Scary as You Think
Not Useless: We Just Don’t Know What It’s for Yet
Unpredictable Futures: Bonhoeffer and Bots
Bookish Diversions: A Cover to Judge By
Word People: Teaching Humanities to Harvard Scientists
5 Personal Rules for Reading Disagreeable Books
‘To Stretch My Limbs in Some Mighty Struggle’
Protect Good Reading from Bad Schooling
No Silos: The Challenge of Finding Your Audience
Split Screen: ‘Children of Men’ as Both Book and Film
Accursed Questions: Why Russian Lit Matters
King’s English: The Making of a Writer
Hug the Robot? AI and the Humanities
Hollywood vs. the Historians: Can We Know the Past?
No Mystery: The Enduring Appeal of Inspector Maigret
Wisdom to Tell: Why ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ Still Matters
The Endless Possibility of Renewal
Challenging Experts: A Lone Journalist Confronts John Steinbeck
An Eternal Song: Remembering ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
A Sketchy Parable of Our Divisive Era
How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
Russian Roulette: The Woman Who Bet on Dostoevsky
1 Mom, 2 Boys, and a Big Classic Novel
Reading ‘War and Peace’ in Both War and Peace
Writing History: This Time It’s Personal
Preventing the Naomi Wolf Problem
Technology, Culture, and Power—What Connects Them All
When You’re No Longer at Home
A Working Writer in a Working Library
Protesting the Decline of Reading
Want a Creative Boost? Let Your Mind Run
Open Thread: The Writerly Virtues?
5 Simple Ways to Nourish Your Mind
French Lessons in Ghostwriting
Book Borrowing, Book Stealing: What’s the Difference?
Bookish Diversions: The Puzzle of Publishing
When Poets Speak of Life and Speak in Prose
Book Deal? Done. Now I’ve Got 9 Months to Finish Writing
Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
Bookish Diversions: Lights, Camera, Bookmarks!
What’s My Point? Consider the Pencil
When Life Betrays You, Only Love Remains
Bookish Diversions: The Bits We Usually Ignore
Sideways Truth: Writing in a Totalitarian Regime
Hunger for Connection: Being Known by Finding Your Voice
Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
Liberation Narratives: Out from Slavery
Consult the Index: The Good Stuff Is in the Back
Unclear Sailing: The Adventure of Knowing
Cormac McCarthy’s Sideline: Freelance Copy Editor
Editing: Scratch That, Try This Instead
Bookish Diversions: Surrounded by Books
Open Thread: One Book or Author You Can’t Stop Talking About?
Inside the Writerly Life of Joan Didion
Joan Didion Maps the California Dream
Purple Rage? A Book to Offend Almost Everyone
Myth Take: C.S. Lewis’s ‘Till We Have Faces’
What Would You Trade for Power and Wealth?
Bookish Diversion: In the Market
What’s So Great about ‘The Great Gatsby’?
Open Thread: Favorite Book as a Kid?
Bookish Diversions: Shhh! Happens
‘A Desire to Constantly Learn’
Open Thread: Re-reading This Year?
Can’t Say It There: ‘Down with Fidel!’