Mark Dunbar
Mark Dunbar is a freelance writer based in Indianapolis. He can be reached by email at mark.dunbar1988@gmail.com or on Twitter @Mark1Dunbar.
Posts by Mark Dunbar
Exorcising the Ghosts of the Sixties
"I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND how anybody could rebel against a system so clearly benign." That authorial “I” was John Updike in his self-deluding memoir,... Read More
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
BY STEPHEN GREENBLATT W. NORTAON & COMPANY, 2018 224 PP.; $21.95 Stephen Greenblatt’s latest, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, is about the tyrannical characters in... Read More
Film Review: First Reformed
How many sins can a person commit in the name of a righteous cause before the sins outweigh the cause? This is the central... Read More
A Pervasive Impression of Our Depravity: William T. Vollman’s Carbon Ideologies
Those looking for hope (or even energizing desperation) about our prospects for dealing with global warming will want to avoid William T. Vollmann’s new... Read More
Film Review: Avengers: Infinity War
Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of ten years and eighteen movies of narrative build-up. The Marvel cinematic universe won’t end with part... Read More
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
BY MALCOLM HARRIS LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, 2017 272 PP.; $16.50 (HARDCOVER) $13.99 (KINDLE) Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials... Read More
Book Review: What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
BOOK BY MARILYNNE ROBINSON FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2018 336PP.; $27.00 I’ve heard it said that Marilynne Robinson is every atheist’s favorite Christian, and... Read More