Michael Lindgren

1 month ago | roanoke.com | Michael Lindgren

The year 2018 has already been distinguished by a bonanza of books about motherhood: smart books, whimsical books, anxious books, frightening books, eloquent books — bringing both heat and light to that most fundamental subject. In this, as in so many things, men seem to be lagging. There is no parallel harvest of thoughtful assessments of fatherhood in evidence, and the three books at hand are a tentative start, at best. Let’s step it up, dads.

May 27, 2024 | mikelindgren.medium.com | Michael Lindgren

Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, by Danielle Dutton. A potent, wildly hybrid book that is by turns fiction, memoir, and art criticism. Since autofiction and autotheory are the signature prose modes of our time, Dutton's book could be conceived of as the logical next turn of the screw by folding in an extra layer of hybridity. (In other words: autofiction = fiction + memoir / autotheory = theory + memoir / Dutton = fiction and theory + memoir).

Apr 16, 2024 | sverigesradio.se | Michael Lindgren

Du måste aktivera javascript för att sverigesradio.se ska fungera korrekt och för att kunna lyssna på ljud. Har du problem med vår sajt så finns hjälp på https://kundo.se/org/teknisk-support/ CRIME A single shipment containing more than 80 illegal stun guns has been confiscated by Swedish Customs. The weapons were addressed to towns all over Sweden, to be sent to customers with an average age of 69.

Mar 1, 2024 | mikelindgren.medium.com | Michael Lindgren

Reading Log, Winter 2023–24American Visions: The United States 1800–1860, by Edward L. Ayers. Very solid, although not transcendent, work from this eminent historian. Ayers traces the diverse voices that shaped American self-understanding in the period leading up to the Civil War. My sense is that he is a progressive-minded Southerner who is bent on destroying whatever extant remnants of the Lost Cause mythos are still polluting the discourse.

Feb 26, 2024 | sverigesradio.se | Michael Lindgren

Du måste aktivera javascript för att sverigesradio.se ska fungera korrekt och för att kunna lyssna på ljud. Har du problem med vår sajt så finns hjälp på https://kundo.se/org/teknisk-support/ NATO The Hungarian parliament has voted in favor of ratifying Sweden's Nato accession Monday afternoon, removing the last major obstacle before Sweden can join the military alliance.