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Brad Thor and Conservatives in Pop Culture
“Our side has better ideas, but it needs better storytellers.” These are the words of the bestselling conservative author Brad Thor, whose latest thriller, Code of Conduct, has just been released. Thor...
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‘Of Mice and Men’: Steinbeck’s Sentimental Foolishness
As we get ready to head back to school, Acculturated is reevaluating some of the “classic” books routinely assigned to children to read during the school year. Do they still deserve to be granted the...
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The Book that Taught Me the Virtue of Sitting Still
As we get ready to head back to school, Acculturated is reevaluating some of the “classic” books routinely assigned to children to read during the school year. Do they still deserve to be granted the...
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We Shouldn’t Need Experts to Remind Us to Read to Our Kids
Recently, the New York Times published a story about a bunch of studies just released that pertain to the benefits of reading to children. The article was written by Perri Klass, a pediatrician who...
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The Bitter, Frustrated Whiner Otherwise Known as Ethan Frome
As we get ready to head back to school, Acculturated is reevaluating some of the “classic” books routinely assigned to children to read during the school year. Do they still deserve to be granted the...
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‘The Little Prince’: A Classic Tale of Codependency and Loneliness
As we get ready to head back to school, Acculturated is reevaluating some of the “classic” books routinely assigned to children to read during the school year. Do they still deserve to be granted the...
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The World According to Holden Caulfield
As we get ready to head back to school, Acculturated is reevaluating some of the “classic” books routinely assigned to children to read during the school year. Do they still deserve to be granted the...
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Why Every Child Should Read ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’
As we head back to school, Acculturated is reevaluating some of the “classic” books routinely assigned to children to read during the school year. Do they still deserve to be granted the label of...
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What Tolkien Can Teach Us about Love and Family
My mother has dementia. I’ve found in her condition a reason not to feel sorrow, although that feeling is there, or to call for advances in medicine to provide a cure. I have no desire to partake in a...
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How Have our Heroes Changed?
The fourteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this past Friday was a somber reminder to Americans of the first responders and their heroic sacrifice on that terrible morning. Three hundred and...
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Sexy, Smutty Feminist Heroine?
The world is mourning the death of a supposed-literary legend this week. She was a feminist hero, we are told. She was a terrific guilty pleasure; she was a path-breaking writer! These are some of the...
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Do We Suffer From Adventure Deficit Disorder?
What do adventurous explorers do when they’re stuck on a ship pinned in by pack ice in the Polar Arctic, surrounded by life-threatening cold, darkness, and dwindling provisions? The crew of the Nimrod...
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Seven Books that Should Be Banned
Every fall the publishing industry—excuse me, the “national books community”—engages in the self-promotional frenzy known as “Banned Books Week.” It comes complete with #BannedBooksWeek hashtags,...
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The Curse of the Love Triangle in YA Fiction
There is a problem afflicting much of young adult literature these days: The Love Triangle. Call it the “Twilight curse,” after that series’ infamous Edward-Bella-Jacob triad. It appears in both the...
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The Latest Self-Help Advice? “F*ck Feelings”
A new book called F*ck Feelings is, well, all the rage. On its face, the volume cries out for disdain. The title, with its studied coarseness, is nakedly mercenary. The genre—self-help—practically...
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Why Helicopter Parents Need to Read ‘The Trumpet of the Swan’
E.B. White’s The Trumpet of the Swan, published in 1970, is usually cast as a story about being different. Set amid an almost-mystical natural world, the book illuminates the trials of a child (albeit...
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Is Jonathan Franzen Our New George Orwell?
Jonathan Franzen’s political views, as shown in his nonfiction work, tend toward the orthodox bourgeois-Bolshevik variety, and yet in his inability to delude himself about the true nature of leftists,...
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Forgiveness, Meaning, and Story: An Interview with Corban Addison
Corban Addison is an attorney, activist, world traveler, and the author of three powerful, lyrical, internationally bestselling novels: A Walk Across the Sun, The Garden of Burning Sand, and the...
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Why Today’s Man Still Needs ‘Iron John’
DaCapo press is about to issue a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Iron John, the classic book about men by poet Robert Bly. Hopefully, an entire new generation of men will discover Bly’s work, which...
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Why Schools Need Bookshelves, Not iPads
Nancie Atwell, a life-long educator and literacy expert who runs the impressive Center for Teaching and Learning in Maine, wants to fill classrooms with bookcases and volumes of rich and enticing...
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