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Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.
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The crowd chuckled, but Castro seemed perfectly serious. The same melancholic wit drapes over Chinese Postman, Castro’s latest novel. It is narrated by Abraham, or “Abe”, Quin, whose life ...
It’s a generous size but there are also separate areas within it, including a little book nook around a wood-burning stove ... If you stay in your pyjamas, you’re just locked in your head. The postman ...
“Perhaps a friendly postman or a businessman in a sharp suit ... to delve into the darkest recesses of human nature,” writes ...
In 1985, media scholar Neil Postman argued that we as a culture are ... An Age of Distraction In a recent book by neuroscientist Anna Lembke, she makes the claim that we live in a time of ...
The actor was unfamiliar with the 'Dune' universe before taking the part of Tula Harkonnen in the prequel series, but history ...