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The Art of Witness
How Primo Levi survived. By James Wood.
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Ezra Pound dans la poubelle
Marjorie Perloff reviews A. David Moody’s “Ezra Pound: Poet. A portrait of the man and his work; Volume Three: The Tragic Years.”
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The Price of Suffering: William Pynchon and “The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption”
William Pynchon, earliest colonial ancestor of the novelist Thomas Pynchon, was a key figure in the early settlement of New England. He also wrote a book which became, at the hands of the Puritans it riled against, one of the first to be banned and burned on American soil. Daniel Crown explores.
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B.E.E. - Michael Angelakos
Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos and Bret Easton Ellis discuss ideology vs. aesthetics, enduring mental illness in the public eye, being fueled by self-hatred and the perils of expressing negative opinions in corporate culture.
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The Greatness of William Blake
Richard Holmes reviews "Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame," by H.J. Jackson, "Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake," by Leo Damrosch, and "Poems" by William Blake, selected and introduced by Patti Smith.
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Mr. and Mrs. B
When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.
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Selling Out the Newspaper Comic Strip
In 1989, organizers of the Festival of Cartoon Art, a triennial gathering of cartoonists and their fans at The Ohio State University, tapped Bill Watterson, the creator of the newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, to deliver one of the keynote addresses. The reclusive Ohio native put forth a list of demands... By Luke Epplin.
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Carol and the Invisibility of Lesbian Culture
Todd Haynes’s adaptation of the classic novel reminds us how much of lesbian culture remains uncelebrated and unseen. By Frank Rich.
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The Double Life of John le Carré
How a con-artist father and treason in MI6 created the bard of the Cold War. By James Parker.
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Loaded Dice
Thomas Chatterton Williams reviews “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar: the philosopher whose essay on Isis has shocked and enlightened
Published just weeks before the Paris attacks, the French professor’s grim analysis has hit a nerve.
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The Secret of Rome’s Success
Mary Beard’s sweeping history is a new read of citizenship in the ancient city. By Emily Wilson.
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The Machiavelli of Maryland: adviser to presidents, prime ministers – and the Dalai Lama
Military strategist, classical scholar, cattle rancher – and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama. Just who is Edward Luttwak? And why do very powerful people pay vast sums for his advice? By Thomas Meaney.
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Why Auden Left
To make sense of the intellectual climate of Britain on the eve of the Second World War, one could do worse than to turn to the case of W.H. Auden. By Spencer Lenfield.
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The allure of literary anonymity
Elena Ferrante is in good company among women novelists hiding their identities.
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Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace
“As something of a favor to Babbage, she wrote an exposition of the Analytical Engine, and in doing so she developed a more abstract understanding of it than Babbage had—and got a glimpse of the incredibly powerful idea of universal computation.” By Stephen Wolfram.
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Reality Itself Is Malevolent in Thomas Ligotti’s Work
Ligotti’s stories seem almost violently unpalatable. They afford neither easy resolutions nor the seemingly ambiguous but ultimately fulfilling pleasures of so many mystery stories. By Austin Price.
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Studio Visit: Gay Talese
Talking journalism, and craft, in the writing bunker of one of the greats. By John Peabody.
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Wittgenstein, Schoolteacher
What the philosopher learned from his time in elementary-school classrooms. By Spencer Robins.
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Iffy
Behind the mask of Rudyard Kipling’s confidence. By Austin Allen.
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