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James Burnham , Trotskyist turned CIA operative, wasn't an unscrupulous shape-shifter. He was a committed activist who never tired of hawking himself

Published: 20/09/2017

James Burnham , Trotskyist turned CIA operative, wasn't an unscrupulous shape-shifter. He was a committed activist who never tired of hawking himself Read more

Source: www.jacobinmag.com
Amis at 70 . Once young and belligerent, now a domesticated elder statesman hoping that his daughter won't opt for college in California

Published: 19/09/2017

Amis at 70 . Once young and belligerent, now a domesticated elder statesman hoping that his daughter won't opt for college in California Read more

Source: www.theguardian.com
Books by Charles Darwin number 25. Books about Darwin number 7,500, with 160 more titles each year. Is there anything new to say on the subject? Yes

Published: 19/09/2017

Books by Charles Darwin number 25. Books about Darwin number 7,500, with 160 more titles each year. Is there anything new to say on the subject? Yes Read more

Source: www.nytimes.com

Five and a half years. That's how long Otis Redding's career lasted. Given where he came from, it's astonishing that his career happened at all

Published: 15/09/2017

Five and a half years. That's how long Otis Redding's career lasted. Given where he came from, it's astonishing that his career happened at all Read more

Source: www.nybooks.com
French was “the pinnacle of logic”; Flemish was the true first language. Behold the folly of early linguistics, a field full of crackpots

Published: 15/09/2017

French was “the pinnacle of logic”; Flemish was the true first language. Behold the folly of early linguistics, a field full of crackpots Read more

Source: aeon.co
Freud has been debunked , yet the apparatus that defends him persists. Why do his ideas endure? Because we want to believe them

Published: 14/09/2017

Freud has been debunked , yet the apparatus that defends him persists. Why do his ideas endure? Because we want to believe them Read more

Source: www.thecut.com

Every generation discovers its own Edgar Allan Poe . Now gig-economy writers have a kindred spirit: Poe, too, was a broke-ass freelancer

Published: 14/09/2017

Every generation discovers its own Edgar Allan Poe . Now gig-economy writers have a kindred spirit: Poe, too, was a broke-ass freelancer Read more

Source: themillions.com
Has the Voynich manuscript been deciphered at last? According to a new theory, it’s a health manual for well-to-do women. Experts are dubious .

Published: 13/09/2017

Has the Voynich manuscript been deciphered at last? According to a new theory, it’s a health manual for well-to-do women. Experts are dubious . Read more

Source: the-tls.co.uk
Frederick Wiseman On the American Condition

Published: 13/09/2017

“If I should be someone else, who should be me?” —Yiddish saying The 500-mile distance across multiple systems of public and private infrastructure that separates me from Frederick Wiseman seemed par ... Read more

Source: www.tabletmag.com

For a time, the personal essay colonized the internet. Now the boom is over. Sadly, nobody told Joyce Maynard

Published: 12/09/2017

For a time, the personal essay colonized the internet. Now the boom is over. Sadly, nobody told Joyce Maynard Read more

Source: www.theatlantic.com
Philosophy and the Gods of the City: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft’s “Thinking in Public”

Published: 11/09/2017

IN AN article published earlier this summer in The Revealer, the intellectual historian Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft identifies a recent hunger in the United States for “public intellectuals.” As he amply d ... Read more

Source: lareviewofbooks.org
The Peculiar Poetry of Paris’s Lost and Found

Published: 10/09/2017

Nadja Spiegelman writes about Paris’s two-hundred-year-old Bureau of Found Objects, one of Europe’s largest centralized lost and founds. Read more

Source: www.newyorker.com

'Plagiarists never do it once': meet the sleuth tracking down the poetry cheats

Published: 9/09/2017

Ira Lightman is a man on a mission: to root out plagiarism in poetry. And his latest case is the most shameless yet The poet Ira Lightman stared at his laptop screen in disbelief. Could it be true? He ... Read more

Source: www.theguardian.com
Silicon Valley's latest "body hack": microdosing LSD . It's supposed to make you more creative. The real allure: It makes you more productive

Published: 9/09/2017

Silicon Valley's latest "body hack": microdosing LSD . It's supposed to make you more creative. The real allure: It makes you more productive Read more

Source: www.1843magazine.com
If we were to take a lesson from the Iliad, it would be to resist the seductions of rage. But beware of authors touting lessons from ancient Greeks

Published: 8/09/2017

If we were to take a lesson from the Iliad, it would be to resist the seductions of rage. But beware of authors touting lessons from ancient Greeks Read more

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Quran is an allusive text. Precisely that difficult and poetic style, says Sari Nusseibeh , is what makes it a "progenitor of reason"

Published: 8/09/2017

The Quran is an allusive text. Precisely that difficult and poetic style, says Sari Nusseibeh , is what makes it a "progenitor of reason" Read more

Source: www.thenation.com
Deeper Than Deep: David Reich’s genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past

Published: 3/09/2017

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Source: www.laphamsquarterly.org
Salman Rushdie: ‘A lot of what Trump unleashed was there anyway’

Published: 2/09/2017

Beginning with the inauguration of Obama and ending with the election of Trump, Rushdie’s latest novel is an intimate portrait of New York. The author talks about the journey from hope to despair and ... Read more

Source: www.theguardian.com

What makes popular-science books popular? The opportunity to measure your comprehension against the best minds. Falling behind is part of the thrill

Published: 2/09/2017

What makes popular-science books popular? The opportunity to measure your comprehension against the best minds. Falling behind is part of the thrill Read more

Source: the-tls.co.uk
The Obscure Economist Silicon Valley Billionaires Should Dump Ayn Rand For

Published: 1/09/2017

He lived almost 200 years ago, but Henry George’s theories might have something to offer people who want to put their money to good use today. Read more

Source: www.vanityfair.com
Nabokov insisted on written interviews. Why? “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child”

Published: 1/09/2017

Nabokov insisted on written interviews. Why? “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child” Read more

Source: lareviewofbooks.org

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