A decade or so ago, several (hundred) jokes made the rounds having to do with thin books. You know: The Italian Cuisine Diet Book, The Smart-Blonde Gag Collection. Mock titles of that sort, often based -- as so many mildly amusing jokes are -- on stereotypes. That spate of chuckle-getters came to mind a few days ago when a very thin book called On Kindness showed up in my mailbox. "Yup," I thought to myself, "these days it makes sense that something of such meager size is all anyone might scrape together about on the subject of kindness." Nevertheless, I read what is essentially a long-ish essay (114 6"x4" pages) by the revered psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and the respected historian Barbara Taylor. The authors get admirably serious about the history...
- 5/15/2009
- by David Finkle
- Huffington Post
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