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Plus: Dorothy Parker and the "infinite monkey theorem"...

Given enough time, would a monkey eventually type out all of Shakespeare? The "infinite monkey theorem" is most certainly wrong... more »

“Why can’t you be funny again?” Dorothy Parker chafed at her reputation as a reliable wit... more »

In 1939, W.H. Auden left England. He rarely returned, but his self-conception as a poet remained bound up in his Englis…