Herman Melville 
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SOURCE: The Nation
6/21/2023
Cormac McCarthy's Brutal Allegories of the American Empire
by Greg Grandin
"McCarthy demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering."
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SOURCE: Slate
6/6/2022
Reading History for "Lessons" Misses the Point
by Daniel Immerwahr
"We read past authors as a sanity check. They reassure us that we’re not alone in what we see."
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SOURCE: Public Books
4/27/2021
Literary and Manual Labors: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
by Jeffrey Lawrence
Herman Melville's move to Pittsfield in western Massachusetts wasn't a withdrawal from society; he was active in building the cultural life of the Berkshire region.
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Herman Melville's Other Masterpiece was a History of Baby Seal Clubbing -- And American Empire
by Greg Grandin
"Benito Cereno" is one of the darkest stories in American literature, and based on the life of the seal-clubbing ancestor of FDR.
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