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High Culture Is Counterculture, Who Beauvoir Loved, and More
When high culture was in high regard, joining the counterculture meant rejecting its values. But now...
Aug 28, 2021
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Elite Capture, and More
In 1975, Caitlin Flanagan met Joan Didion at a dinner in Berkeley. She’s been chasing Didion ever since ... more » The digital humanities employ faux…
May 18
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The Charismatic Franz Liszt, the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and More
Franz Liszt, witty, handsome, charismatic. Women were said to carry his discarded cigar butts in their cleavage.
Sep 13, 2021
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The Future of 'The Believer,' and More
Why did the University of Nevada at Las Vegas sell The Believer, a beloved literary magazine, to a sex-toy company?... more » When time breaks, futures…
May 16
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The Engrossing Strangeness of the Ancient World, and More
Mad honey, ghost ships, flying snakes: Adrienne Mayor plumbs the engrossing strangeness of the ancient Greco-Roman world ... more » Ibram X. Kendi is…
Jul 25
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s Metaphor-Rich Mind, and More
The era of the novel of middle-class male malaise “burned itself most beautifully out, leaving the way clear for other stories” ... more » In Jhumpa…
Jul 18
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What Is Progress?, and More
What is progress – and can it be sped up? Progress studies is an academic field dedicated to figuring that out ... more » Censorship in America has long…
Jun 17
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Intelligence Is a Trap, and More
Elaine Castillo is troubled by the way white readers seek out Black writers as moral arbiters rather than as artists ... more » Human ingenuity has led…
Aug 12
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David Bromwich on 'Top Gun,' and More
In postcolonial India, English was more than a language. It was the promise of social progress... more » In order to create a Führermuseum, the Nazis…
Jul 12
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Solving the Puzzle of Puzzles, and More
For the “zesty bibliophile” Emma Smith, books can be both dangerous and benign, and can mean more than their contents ... more » Does solving puzzles …
May 2
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Salman Rushdie’s Stabbing, and More
"On the Internet, we endlessly raise awareness, … we signal-boost and call out, and we argue about where our attention should be directed, and how" …
Aug 16
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Sylvia Plath Biographies, and More
Sylvia Plath biographies are an “allegory of the problem of biography in general,” wrote Janet Malcolm. The problem has only gotten worse ... more » The…
Mar 29
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