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Ethan Warren
Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair
“I once again reach for these stories, and remember that we exist in a chain of forces that must be—and can be—respected.”
By
Ethan Warren
| August 16, 2023
Why
All Creatures Great and Small
is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet
Poised on the Ledge of WWII, the PBS Series Based on James Herriot’s Life Captures the Writer‘s Ethos
By
Ethan Warren
| January 20, 2023
Juvenile Delinquency and the “Sinister Adolescents” of
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson’s Film About Two Misunderstood Preteens Has More in Common with Terrence Malick’s
Badlands
Than it Might Seem
By
Ethan Warren
| August 12, 2022
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Seeking Justice in Deep South Georgia
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by
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"A vivid, sometimes grisly, sometimes enraging portrait of 19th-century British society ... Probing and excellent."