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The blockbuster cultural criticism book tends to speak to its time—then become a curio as the culture changes around it. But Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death has legs. For a book published 40 ...
This may be the most salient virtue of Amusing Ourselves to Death: how readily the mental tools the book provides can be applied to media undreamed of when Postman was writing it. TV is very ...
Bilodo had been intercepting her letters for two years now, and whenever he spotted one while sorting his post, he always experienced the same shock, the same shiver of awe. He would quietly slip ...
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Kawase Mika, director of "The Postman from Nagasaki." The documentary is inspired by a book published in 1984. Its author, Peter Townsend, was a British Royal Air Force pilot during World War II ...