Gorman Beauchamp

Gorman Beauchamp

Percival Everett’s James: A Novel is a rewrite of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the slave Jim. But Gorman Beauchamp wonders if Twain’s “unforgettable in......

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Gorman Beauchamp

Shakespeare’s play The Tempest has become a tool for activists of the current political zeitgeist. The purveyors of anti-colonialist ideology have reoriented the play, with alterations......

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Gorman Beauchamp

Gorman Beauchamp is angered (and somewhat amused) that the work of the great Bard has now been scrutinized under the lens of antiracist ideology.

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Gorman Beauchamp

A recent book about Hong Kong reminds a literary scholar of his time, fresh out of college, teaching English in the vibrant and spirited British colony.

• Intellectual Freedom

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Gorman Beauchamp

A review of "The Bard's God," by Gideon Rappaport, One Mind Good Press, 2022, pp. 514, $32 hardbound.

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Gorman Beauchamp

Academic feminists go to some pretty strange lengths to ensure that female “writers” are well-represented in the literary canon of the Renaissance. Gorman Beauchamp considers the strange c......

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Gorman Beauchamp

A review of "Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture," by Dan Kovalik, Hot Press, 2021, pp. 199, $24.99 hardcover.

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Gorman Beauchamp

A review of Robert Boyers' "The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies."

• Book Reviews
• Identity Politics

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Gorman Beauchamp

It is one thing when critics insist that racial identity is socially constructed and therefore acquired or discarded as one chooses. But it is quite another when they read black characters and racial......

• Race
• Literary Criticism

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