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The Melville We Need, and More
Moby-Dick had been out of print for decades when Melville died.
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The History of the Chapter, and More
It dates to 13th-century narrative units in the Gospels, before the separation of sentences and even of words.
Nov 28
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Reassessing Georg Lukács, and More
Expurgate Bolshevik themes and some long-outdated Marxist concepts, for starters.
Nov 27
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Madeline Kripke’s Dictionaries, and More
The jargon of 17th-century London, the slang of 1960s teens — if you can imagine it, it’s in Madeline Kripke’s dictionary collection.
Nov 25
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The Liberal’s Dilemma, and More
Are they suffering from their own success, or from the fact that liberalism has never been tried?
Nov 22
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The Philip Roth Festival, and More
Three days of “Rothdom” — a Newark festival dedicated to Philip Roth — spur a thought: His creative, licentious force is best consumed alone... more »…
Nov 21
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Psychedelics and Psychosis, and More
In the 1960s, scientists believed in a connection between psychedelics and psychosis. Is there anything to that?
Nov 20
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Taylor Lorenz, George Packer, and More
Beginning in the 13th century, a new paradigm of measurement and mathematics built the modern world... more » “To be a writer today is to make yourself…
Nov 17
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The Cultural Position of Aliens, and More
Stanley Fish on teaching at Florida’s newly controversial New College: “Virtue is not the business of the academy”... more » Aristotle condemned the…
Nov 16
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Shakespeare’s First Folio, and More
Its initial print run was 750. Today 233 copies survive, all of them unique.
Nov 15
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Dwight Garner, Russell Kirk, and More
“Stalin’s one and only culinary extravagance in those days was a bathtub full of pickled gherkins”... more » Dwight Garner cannot read without eating…
Nov 14
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AI, Roman Emperors, and More
Roman emperors were overworked bureaucrats tasked with theatrical displays of strength.
Nov 13
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