I reread this book this past year because (unfortunately) it remains
relevant.
Our campuses have become hyper-politicized, ideologically monolithic
places of oppression and cancellation rather than places where diverse
individuals with diverse perspectives come together to figure out their way to
the truth.
Johnston absolutely nails the campus scene in this satire, capturing
the sheer craziness of the ideologues (both students and faculty) who run the
show, generating plenty of laughs—painful laughs, but laughs—along the way. One
reads this book and, while laughing, wants to weep about the state of today’s
campuses.
Eph Russell is an English professor up for tenure. He may look and sound privileged, but Eph is right out of gun-rack, Bible-thumping rural Alabama. His beloved Devon, though, has become a place of warring tribes, and there are landmines waiting for Eph that he is unequipped to see. The cultural rules are changing fast.
Lulu Harris is an entitled freshman - er, first year - from Manhattan. Her singular ambition is to be a prominent socialite - an "It Girl." While most would kill for a place at Devon, to her college is a dreary impediment. She is pleasantly…
Kaufmann is primarily known as a brilliant, original
screenwriter responsible for such mind-bending movies as Being John Malkovich
and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But here he directs his
prodigious talent to a novel, if that is the right word for this amazing
literary achievement.
The plot itself almost doesn’t matter, as one starts to
lose the thread of it after a while as it meanders into almost phantasmagorical
places: it’s the sheer blinding brilliance of the prose itself, invoking such
words as “masterful” and “genius,” along with just a mind-blowing amount of
comic hilarity.
I don’t recall if I’ve ever laughed out loud so often at a
piece of writing like this, even at moments where I wasn’t entirely sure what
was going on. This book must be experienced to be believed.
The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar (R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York.
'Riotously funny' New York Times
'Just as loopy and clever as his movies' Washington Post
B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider - a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete. Convinced that the film will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema…
Thomas
Sowell is the most important and famous intellectual most people have
never heard of.
In an age of disinformation and distrust of authority, he cuts
through all the haze, the fake experts, and gives you hope that humanity might
actually be able to get to the truth, eventually.
This book brilliantly shows
you how “great minds” have gone wrong on almost every topic (law, economy,
public policy, race, etc.) because they are too committed to their political
programs and self-glory rather than the truth. You will never listen to another
talking head or self-confident academic quite the same way after
reading Thomas Sowell.
This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters show the radically different views of race prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the twentieth century and at the end- and yet how each of these opposite views of race had the same dogmatic quality and the same refusal to countenance differing opinions among their contemporaries, much less engage dissenting opinions in serious debate. Moreover, each of these…
A chance encounter – if it is by chance – gives J. the opportunity of a lifetime.
A physician in a midlife funk, he is invited to speak at a small college. But when he arrives at the secluded island campus of Nevergreen College, he gets a lot more than he bargained for.
No one actually shows up for his talk, but that doesn’t stop it from becoming the center of a firestorm of controversy—with potentially fatal consequences. Welcome to Nevergreen—a smart, fast, funny, and incisive portrait of today’s liberal arts college scene, cancel culture, and more.
