Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence - Econlib.
We will do this, of course, by means of a variety of lists. We began with the best debut novels, the best short story collections, the best poetry collections, and the best memoirs of the decade, and we have now reached the fifth list in our series: the best essay collections published in English between 2010 and 2019.A fter the startling success of MASH, a war movie without a war, Robert Altman set out to make what he called “a western that wasn’t a western.” In MASH (1970), the filmmaker had gleefully disposed of genre conventions—the battle scenes, the grim heroism, the appeals to patriotic pride—and he intended to do the same with his adaptation of McCabe, Edmund Naughton’s 1959 novel about.The kids and families in A Brighter Summer Day are mostly transplanted mainlanders (like Yang, who was born in southern China in 1947 and brought to Taiwan as a toddler). Their culture is traditional Chinese, but it’s framed by that of the native Taiwanese, who speak their own dialect, and by the lingering Japanese influence.
This novel, which is set in 1948 in the fictional town of Bayonne, Louisiana, focuses on the relationship between a teacher and one student. The lesson before them is to how to face death. Grant Wiggins is a primary school teacher who has come forward to teach Jefferson, a twenty-one year-old man who is scheduled to be executed.At the Scholar, 2019 was a year full of books. In addition to editing and producing reviews and literary essays for our print magazine and website, our online book club read and discussed 11 different books, both fiction and nonfiction. We interviewed memoirists, biographers, and journalists for our podcast.Meanwhile, members of our editorial board published seven books among them this year.
One of the many oddities surrounding The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) is that as critics have come to acclaim it as a masterpiece—perhaps the masterpiece—of British cinema, this marvelously uncategorizable epic of love and war has remained relatively unknown to the moviegoing public. Other films bearing the Archers’ stamp, like The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffmann.
