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Christmas Critics

Tiina Aleman | Robert E. Proctor | Nick Baumann | Matthew Boudway | Keith C. Burris

Matthew Boudway Two of the best books I read this year were both day-by-day accounts of long, unlikely walks. Apart from that, and their general excellence, they have little in common. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (Alfred A. Knopf, $24, 241 pp.) has already been justly praised by many reviewers as a masterpiece. Partly on the strength of that praise and the author’s formidabl (...)


 

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Tiina Aleman is Commonweal’s production editor. Her translations of Estonian poet Doris Kareva will appear in the winter issue of Dragonfire.

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Robert E. Proctor is Joanne Toor Cummings Professor of Italian at Connecticut College.

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Nick Baumann is the news editor for Mother Jones.

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Matthew Boudway is an associate editor of Commonweal.

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Keith C. Burris is editorial page editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut.

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