Two Interesting Reviews with a Common Thread

[lsanderson]

Opinion
What Tolkien Knew About Love
Like Henry Darger, he created an epic fantasy. Why is Tolkien remembered, and Darger nearly forgotten?

“Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft-Elves,” an illustration for “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien, July 1937. Credit Bodleian Libraries, MS/The Tolkien Estate Limited 1937, via The Morgan Library & Museum.


“They Escape Again by Overpowering Guards" and "Are Seized by Pursuing Glandelinians,” by Henry Darger. Credit The Estate of Henry Darger/Art Resource, NY

By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Contributing Opinion Writer

Why I Take All My First Dates to Olive Garden
It starts with free wine samples, endless breadsticks, and keeping my expectations low.


BY KRISTEN N. ARNETT

Comments

Re: Hard...

[carbonel]

Oh, I don't know. I should think there'd be an interesting article -- or series of articles -- in addressing the joys of the places that real foodies scorn. After all, people go there for a reason.

Re: Hard...

[lsanderson]

There is the famous one by a writer for the Grand Forks Herald. It got national attention five or ten years ago.