Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Angels: a very short introduction
What are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from gods, fairies, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? And what about demons?
David Albert Jones, Oxford University Press,
27 October 2011
The Art Market Shouldn't be the Judge of Good Art
Art is a lifelong learning curve and the market is no substitute for putting eyeballs directly on it—smelling it, tasting it and touching it. You need to lift it, hang it, insure it, frame it, pack it, ship it, live with it, damage it, hate it and idolize it.
Kenny Schachter,
Rise Art, 24 October 2011
The Simpsons versus Shakespeare
Children don’t need to go to school in order to enjoy cartoons, but that it takes years of study to understand great literature and become an educated person.
Michele Ledda,
Independent, 23 October 2011
What’s wrong with a readable book?
Good writers write good books; excellent writers write good books people buy, read and enjoy in great and lasting numbers. Prizes that call people’s attention to books like that are good; those that actively discourage them are just ridiculous.
Bert Archer ,
Star, 22 October 2011
Giving the people’s Bible back to the people
The King James Bible (KJB) contains 66 books; now 66 writers have been commissioned to compose plays and other performances “in response” to each of those books.
Charles Moore,
Daily Telegraph, 17 October 2011
Dutch Novelists Beyond Postmodern Relativism
Now that we have reached the point at which postmodernism, rightly or wrongly, has been declared moribund, it is time to assess its literary legacy critically. What has been the effect of postmodernism? Have we gone beyond it in literature? And why this desire to go beyond?
Thomas Vaessens,
Journal of Dutch Literature, October 2011
The Purpose of Science Fiction
How it teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology.
Robert Sawyer,
Slate, 27 September 2011
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