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Parasitical Fiction, The Decline of British Swearing, and More

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Parasitical Fiction, The Decline of British Swearing, and More

Oct 7, 2021
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Parasitical Fiction, The Decline of British Swearing, and More

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W.G. Sebald’s fiction is parasitical. It preyed on the Jewish quest for an obliterated past to recover a usable German present... more »

Between 1953 and 1976, private foundations lavished money on orchestras and operas, to the detriment of folk and jazz... more »

The trial of Oscar Wilde tends to be used to distill his character rather than to dramatize …

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