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WASHINGTON—The US Supreme Court today ruled that President George W. Bush is the lawful President of Iraq. The Bush Administration had brought a lawsuit in January, 2001 (Bush vs. Hussein, US 03-1024) against Saddam Hussein for “usurping the role of dictat... More »
See also: A Son of the Circus, A Widow for One Year The Fourth Hand and an imaginary review of Irving’s The Third Leg. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Review By Dan Geddes John Irving’s A Prayer For Owen Meany is yet another Irving book that abs... More »
Henry Miller Review By Dan Geddes See also review of Miller’s The Rosy Crucifixion Henry Miller is famous for leaving New York for Paris in 1930, and writing sexually-explicitly literary novels that were banned in the United States for over thirty years.... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes Early Years Case Studies: Fox Boy and “Tail Envy” The Selfish Stage “Shrink To The Stars” The Inner Victim Hoyt’s Legacy Dr. Claire Hoyt, once the world-famous “Shrink to the Stars,” d... More »
About The Satirist Since 1999, millions of readers and web crawlers have read The Satirist “America’s Most Critical Journal”. The Satirist features original works of satire, parody, and “news”, fiction and poems, essays, as well... More »
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Review by Dan Geddes See also review of Franzen’s Freedom The Corrections admirably portrays the values of both contemporary American yuppies and their square parents. While the three main characters are well-spoken East ... More »
By Dan Geddes JEFFERSON, VIRGINIA—Herbert Henry, a Republican candidate for the Jefferson, Virginia City Council delivered a speech to supporters last week, in which he declared that “The Democrats don’t love your families as much as I do.” ... More »
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson Review By Dan Geddes Winesburg’s Reception I can understand why Winesburg, Ohio was shocking for its time: the veneer of Victorian innocence in small town American life is pierced, revealing tormented psyches even among ... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes See also reviews of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, as well as a satire of Tarantino’s “Scent of a Banknote” Sonny.…………….……….Harvey Keitel Slick………………………..Samuel L. Jackson L... More »
See also: A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Son of the Circus, A Widow for One Year an imaginary review of Irving’s The Third Leg The Fourth Hand By John Irving Review by Dan Geddes The Fourth Hand must have been a fun book to write. John Irving’s novel is fi... More »
Parables of Kierkegaard Edited by Thomas C. Oden Review By Dan Geddes Editor Thomas C. Oden discovered the idea of compiling Kierkegaard’s parables during a conversation with another scholar. This volume gives Kierkegaard’s parables a wider audience, as fe... More »