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Sorry the pickings have been a little sparse here, I've been gobbled up by the great maw that is grad school. I finally had a little...

I am nearly half way through George Eliot's massive social study of country life in Victorian England - Middlemarch - and I though...

The assurance of George Eliot's authorial voice, which begins every chapter of Middlemarch like a film voice over, could be though...

The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few ima...

One of my favorite creative exercises is bringing together the unlikely. The Dark Knight - the recent oh-so-bleak Batman flick - and Middl...

Ah, the machinations and justifications that go into the acquiring of power. I seem to be seeing it everywhere lately. New York's curr...

George Eliot spends the entire of the first book of Middlemarch introducing us to the Miss Brookes, Celia and Dorothea, and Dorothea's i...

I put Middlemarch on this year's re-read list after Sheila read it recently and I realized I barely remembered it, having read it 23 ye...