Book Review THE LIBERATING ARTS Multiple Authors

ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙᴇʀᴀᴛɪɴɢ ᴀʀᴛs
 𝘑𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘳𝘰, 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘏𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘯, and 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘴𝘰𝘯, eds. 
Plough Publishing
228p    🅟🅤🅑 🅓🅐🅣🅔 9.5.2023

Thank you to the editors, publishers, and as always @NetGalley, for an advance digital copy of ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙᴇʀᴀᴛɪɴɢ ᴀʀᴛs.


Three or more things I liked:

1. This book and the essays that comprise it are short but still impactful. Sometimes writers of nonfiction topics tend to run on, but this collection of essays keeps things tight.

2. Interesting form helps keep things moving. Each of these brief essays, written by different nonfiction authors, attempts to [respond to] one widely held perspective that we hear in today's culture, questioning the value of the liberal arts. "Practical Matters"

3. Sccording to the chapter, "Practical Matters," Due to the support of the CCCU and Plough Publishing House, we are able to donate the proceeds from this book to four organizations that are doing inspiring and important work: the Catherine Project, the Clemente Course in the Humanities, Nyansa Classical Community, and the Odyssey Project. Considering the likelihood this book will be read as a textbook, I was so delighted to read this! I'm inspired when creative co-ops produce educational and creative works like this and then provide them to the true benefit of consumers. It means something; this knowledge rewrites the essays even as I read them.  How magnificent!

Three or less things I didn't like:

1. I wanted more! I like succinct articles, and these were. But I needed just a little bit more from almost every one of the chapters!

Rating: 📚📚📚.5 / 5 stacks of textbooks
Recommend? Yes
Finished: August 13 20
Format: Advance Digital Copy, NetGalley
Read this if you like:
📓 Academic nonfiction
🎓 Education
📃 Essays

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