Graphic detail | The GBOATs How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time? Tolkien, 1954 1 day, 7 hours and 13 minutes to read 18 Catch-22 Joseph Heller, 1961 10 hours and 33 minutes to read 19 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert, 1857 6 hours and 36 minutes to read 20 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë, 1847 …
The Left uses art, literature, drama and cinema not merely to make an ideological statement but ultimately to topple governments In 1974, Tom Wolfe was rudely jolted awake in his bathtub when he read the following words in The New York Times, written by Hilton Kramer, dean of the arts at Yale University: “Realism does not lack its partisans, but …