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James Wolcott: ‘The Life of Saul Bellow’
Published: 17/01/2019What is at risk of being lost amid all the turkey stuffing is that Bellow was a witty writer, as much a snappy dresser in prose as he was splashed out in his slick duds, a cool operator and crafty obs ... Read moreSource: lrb.co.uk -
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The real Socrates ? Plato’s version is pure rationality. Xenophon’s dispenses practical advice, like the merits of dancing alone
Published: 15/01/2019The real Socrates ? Plato’s version is pure rationality. Xenophon’s dispenses practical advice, like the merits of dancing alone Read moreSource: aeon.co
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The 1943 cast recording of Oklahoma! put the Broadway musical at the center of American popular culture. It didn't stay there for long
Published: 15/01/2019The 1943 cast recording of Oklahoma! put the Broadway musical at the center of American popular culture. It didn't stay there for long Read moreSource: www.commentarymagazine.com -
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Why Literature Professors Turned Against Authors — Or Did They?
Published: 14/01/2019SINCE THE 1940s among professors of literature, attributing significance to authors’ intentions has been taboo and déclassé. The phrase literary work, which implies a worker, has been replaced in scho ... Read moreSource: lareviewofbooks.org -
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Elizabeth Anderson asks, " "What's the point of equality?" " Is she the philosopher best suited to this awkward moment in American life?
Published: 12/01/2019Elizabeth Anderson asks, " "What's the point of equality?" " Is she the philosopher best suited to this awkward moment in American life? Read moreSource: www.newyorker.com
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A viciously critical review , with finely honed mockery and acid-tipped one-liners, is born of righteous fury. But it can become pure joy
Published: 12/01/2019A viciously critical review , with finely honed mockery and acid-tipped one-liners, is born of righteous fury. But it can become pure joy Read moreSource: www.theringer.com -
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Victor Klemperer’s diaries , which recorded the creeping Nazification of German society, are masterful; his earlier reports are less so
Published: 11/01/2019Victor Klemperer’s diaries , which recorded the creeping Nazification of German society, are masterful; his earlier reports are less so Read moreSource: www.thenation.com -
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The Millions Was the Last Great Indie Book Blog
Published: 10/01/2019Comments Read moreSource: www.vulture.com
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A history of assassination . Firearms and explosives are the most popular methods, but perhaps not the most effective. Sometimes it takes an ice pick
Published: 10/01/2019A history of assassination . Firearms and explosives are the most popular methods, but perhaps not the most effective. Sometimes it takes an ice pick Read moreSource: the-tls.co.uk -
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Editing Proust . When he died, in 1922, his manuscripts were riddled with inconsistencies: a character perishes on page 221, and is alive on page 257
Published: 9/01/2019Editing Proust . When he died, in 1922, his manuscripts were riddled with inconsistencies: a character perishes on page 221, and is alive on page 257 Read moreSource: lithub.com -
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Degas , extraordinary artist and brilliant innovator, helped lead the 19th-century artistic vanguard. But he was a perfectly ordinary anti-Semite
Published: 8/01/2019Degas , extraordinary artist and brilliant innovator, helped lead the 19th-century artistic vanguard. But he was a perfectly ordinary anti-Semite Read moreSource: www.tabletmag.com
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“Innumerable Intentions and Charms”: On Gary Browning’s “Why Iris Murdoch Matters”
Published: 8/01/2019BEHIND THE DESK in my office is a portrait of the young Iris Murdoch painted by artist-philosopher Renée Bolinger in the style of Lucian Freud. Murdoch stares over my shoulder as I type, her boyish ha ... Read moreSource: lareviewofbooks.org -
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Kafka’s Last Trial by Benjamin Balint review – long battle over a literary legacy
Published: 5/01/2019A scrupulous study of the squabble between Germany and Israel over Kafka’s papers, and the two women caught in the middle The world was Kafkaesque before Franz Kafka; all he did was contribute the adj ... Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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J.D. Salinger will forever be a writer oriented toward possibility. He never aged in public, and he wrote so compassionately about youth
Published: 4/01/2019J.D. Salinger will forever be a writer oriented toward possibility. He never aged in public, and he wrote so compassionately about youth Read moreSource: www.tabletmag.com
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Wunderkind of socialism . How Bhaskar Sunkara built Jacobin , the most successful American ideological magazine to launch in the past decade
Published: 3/01/2019Wunderkind of socialism . How Bhaskar Sunkara built Jacobin , the most successful American ideological magazine to launch in the past decade Read moreSource: www.cjr.org -
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Germaine Greer was a colossus whose vitality and pugnacity made her impossible to ignore. Then she embarked on a path of retrograde rants
Published: 3/01/2019Germaine Greer was a colossus whose vitality and pugnacity made her impossible to ignore. Then she embarked on a path of retrograde rants Read moreSource: the-tls.co.uk -
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At 29, Percy Bysshe Shelley still looked like a child. He continued sailing paper boats into adulthood. Was his poetry similarly immature?
Published: 3/01/2019At 29, Percy Bysshe Shelley still looked like a child. He continued sailing paper boats into adulthood. Was his poetry similarly immature? Read moreSource: lrb.co.uk
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Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into something else
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James Watson in exile . More than a decade since his views on race and intelligence became public, he's been shunned but hasn't changed his mind
Published: 2/01/2019James Watson in exile . More than a decade since his views on race and intelligence became public, he's been shunned but hasn't changed his mind Read moreSource: www.nytimes.com
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