John Biguenet
John Biguenet is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. He is the author of six plays and seven books, including The Torturer’s Apprentice and Oyster, and a recipient of the O. Henry Award.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Evacuations Are Admissions of Failure
When mass evacuation becomes the primary response to hurricanes and wildfires, leaders are admitting that they cannot protect their citizens from threats of climate change.
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David Gray / Reuters / The Atlantic The Luxury of Silence
In the noisy modern world, peace and quiet come with an increasingly hefty price tag.
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lynea/shutterstock/The Atlantic A Modern Guide to the Love Letter
From the right kind of stationery to the wrong kind of metaphor, a how-to on the art of epistolary wooing
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Dreamworks The Profound Contradiction of Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg's D-Day epic is a brutal, unpatriotic portrait of war—except for the notoriously sappy prologue and epilogue. What was the film really trying to say?
