Free Beacon Bruce Fleming

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.


Elmore Leonard

Go West, Young Gangster

Review: Elmore Leonard, ‘Four Later Novels’

Antonio di Benedetto

Kafka in the Pampas

Review: Antonio di Benedetto, Esther Allen (trans.), ‘Zama’

paper

Paper Thin

Review: ‘Paper’ by Mark Kurlansky

The sun sets over the Appalachian Mountains

From the Holler to Yale Law

Review: J.D. Vance, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

Ernest Hemingway

When Did Masculinity Die?

Review: Lesley M. M. Blume, ‘Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises’

Marcus Aurelius

Mind the Gap

Review: Peter Adamson, ‘Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without any Gaps, Volume 2’

Fantasy Islands

Review: Nancy Bauer, 'How to Do Things With Pornography'

men

Channeling Testosterone

Review: Jack Myers, ‘The Future of Men: Masculinity in the Twenty-First Century’

Trigger Warnings in Annapolis

Review: Joanna Williams, ‘Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity’