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Dec 25, 2017

Best Books I read in 2017

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) I’d already read P&P, and I was already thinking that I was done with old English lit., so I...

Ken Ilgunas

Dec 23, 2017

“The Last Jedi” Review

There will be spoilers. 1. It was a complete waste a time with hardly a redeeming quality. 2. There was no chemistry between any of the...

Ken Ilgunas

Dec 18, 2017

On mean signs and our lousy democracy

[I wrote this essay a few years ago when I was living in North Carolina. It was for my photo blog, notrespassingsigns.blogspot.com. I...

Ken Ilgunas

Dec 11, 2017

The Big Forces Theory

A little more than a week ago, Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos, called a political opponent “Pocahontas” at a ceremony honoring Native...

Ken Ilgunas

Nov 21, 2017

The Scottish Desert

There is great beauty in the wild, solitary Highlands, but it can be a haunting sort of beauty. You could walk for miles and never see...

The Value of the National Petroleum Reserve

Ken Ilgunas

Nov 10, 2017

The Value of the National Petroleum Reserve

Christopher Solomon has a lovely piece in NYT‘s Sunday Review. I have lived near the National Petroleum Reserve (a cold and undignified...

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Oct 30, 2017

Highland streams

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Aug 2, 2017

The making of “This Land Is Our Land”

So I recently finished my third book, This Land Is Our Land, to be published in the spring of 2018 by Dutton, a Penguin Random House...

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Ken Ilgunas

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