“There is something disagreeable to me in any political party line,” Phillip Lopate writes in his new essay collection, Portrait Inside My Head, “which too often commits the espouser to tit-for-tat distortions and petty vituperations.” Unwilling to translate his liberalism into political action, Lopate is more comfortable with contemplation, a mode “in which skepticism, ambivalence, and uncertainty play large parts.”
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