Bruce Fleming has taught English at the U.S. Naval Academy since 1987; his books and articles are noted on his website www.brucefleming.net.
A Romp at the Kennedy Center
Review: Alexei Ratmansky's 'The Little Humpbacked Horse,' at the Kennedy Center through Feb. 5
It's Not the Internet's Fault We're Dumb
Review: Nicholas Carr, 'Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
No Touching
Review: KC Johnson & Stuart Taylor Jr., 'The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities'
As Iron Sharpens Iron
Review: Sebastian Smee, 'The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Thomas De Quincey: Father of Addiction Lit
Review: Frances Wilson, 'Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey'
How Ambrose Bierce Went to War—and Never Came Back
Review: Christopher Kiernan Coleman, ‘Ambrose Bierce And the Period of Honorable Strife’
Words Matter, Whatever Stanley Fish Says
Review: Stanley Fish, 'Winning Arguments: What Works and What Doesn’t Work in Politics, The Bedroom, The Courtroom, and The Classroom'
When Art Mattered
Review: Claude Arnaud, Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell (trans.), 'Jean Cocteau: A Life’
Life Goes On, Even At Ground Zero
Review: Lynne B. Sagalyn, ‘Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan’