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Thom Nickels: Literary criticism in the Trump era suffers from an excess of politics

March 20, 2026March 19, 2026
Thom Nickels

It’s derangement all the way down.
By Thom Nickels

Media

John Rossi: Four Quarters and me

February 27, 2026February 26, 2026
John Rossi
1

One of the pleasures of my fifty plus years teaching at La Salle College, then University, was the school’s literary […]

History

From Peking to Philadelphia — The East, the West, and Pearl S. Buck

August 22, 2025August 24, 2025
Thom Nickels

In 1938, the Swedish Academy shocked the American literary establishment by awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Pearl S. […]

Culture

Thom Nickels: Owen Wister and the ‘Western Cure’

January 17, 2025January 16, 2025
Thom Nickels
3

Several years ago while researching my book, Literary Philadelphia: A History of Poetry & Prose in the City of Brotherly […]

Culture

Thom Nickels: Susan Sontag in Philadelphia

September 27, 2024September 29, 2024
Thom Nickels
4

By Thom Nickels

Op-Ed

Christine Flowers: Plenty of disdain for misuse of emotionally charged words

Christine Flowers: Plenty of disdain for misuse of emotionally charged words

schedule April 13 2026
ink_pen Christine Flowers

As an old Catholic school girl who may or may not have started too late, words mean a lot to […]

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