Materfamilias Writes

Derrida’s Delightful Difficulty — and other reading . . .

Derrida’s Delightful Difficulty — and other reading . . .

For my Literary Theory group (a reading group of colleagues from my department), I read Derrida’s essay, “Economimesis” over the past week in preparation for a visiting speaker’s talk Friday afternoon — very challenging and…

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Lee Child’s Jack Reacher

Lee Child’s Jack Reacher

Having just come back from a few days in Toronto, I was primed to appreciate this, from Lee Child’s Without Fail: Every city has a cusp, where the good part of town turns bad. Washingon…

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