Sarah Skwire
sskwire@libertyfund.orgSarah Skwire is a fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc. She is a poet and author of the writing textbook Writing with a Thesis.
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Hollow Men
MAY 10, 2013 by SARAH SKWIRE
The Great Gatsby is full of hollow people living hollow lives without any meaningful connection to each other. And that's exactly the point.
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Built on Sand
MAY 03, 2013 by SARAH SKWIRE
The sprawling, pre-Holocaust family saga of The Brothers Ashkenazi displays the shortcomings of all systematic, simple answers to the problem of being human.
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Extremely Creative and Incredibly Destructive
APRIL 19, 2013 by SARAH SKWIRE
Donald E. Westlake's crime novel The Ax takes on the question of creative destruction in tough times.
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A Traditional Marriage
APRIL 05, 2013 by SARAH SKWIRE
Dorothy Canfield-Fisher's novel The Home-Maker (1924) upholds Tolstoy's maxim that "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." It also offers a clear--and, for its time, innovative--depiction of the ways rigid definitions of gender roles can stifle the ability of women and men to find ways to flourish.
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Binding the Muse
MARCH 22, 2013 by SARAH SKWIRE
The tension between rules designed in advance and those that emerge from trial and error lies at the heart of the human experience, from poetry to civilization.
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