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At the end of the 19th century, Lafcadio Hearn was one of America’s best-known writers. Today he’s forgotten in the U.S. and a cultural icon in Japan... more »
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Natalia Ginzburg’s family — left-leaning Jews in Fascist Italy — watched in horror as terror, internal exile, and prison began to permeate “ordinary” life... more »
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The complex history of gestures. Our nonverbal communication — from the “flagrant pelvis” to fascist salutes to Friends — is deeply rooted... more »
To constantly pursue something you can never catch is a form of madness. Yet that's exactly what we do by pursuing happiness... more »
“As far as I am concerned, everybody should write like a man.” Terry Castle sounds off on the authorial life, self-importance, and the value of humor... more »
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Kissinger, Rostow, and Brzezinski were academics who became influential policy makers. How did political science become irrelevant to politics?... more »
In the 1980s, George Will’s conservatism was prophetic. Today his political sensibility is antiquated, addressing problems that no longer exist... more »
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Want to see how components of modernism become a source of lament? Enter the fallen world of motels. Geoff Dyer explains... more »
Thirty years since Cass Sunstein's first steps as a public intellectual, the world has changed. But not his ideas, or his dreary prose... more »
Is discussion overrated? Is it not as likely to generate bitterness, and division as it is to enlighten or foster consensus?... more »
The knowledge illusion. Only rarely do we allow ourselves to glimpse the epistemological abyss gaping beneath our beliefs... more »
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"There’s been a degradation of the quality of our intellectual life," says Glenn Loury. "To the extent that I’ve contributed to that, I regret it."... more »
A psychologist studying empathy is like a climatologist studying polar ice: "We discover how valuable it is just as it recedes all around us”... more »
Svetlana Alexievich is on a mission to collect memories before they disappear, to correct for the rewriting of history by propaganda... more »
In 1943, Francoise Gilot was a wannabe painter and an aspiring intellectual with little firsthand experience. Then she met Picasso... more »
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Before its “golden age,” TV was thought to be formulaic, fluffy trash. The change in regard is in no small part the work of Emily Nussbaum... more »
Lacan, the terrible. He was avaricious, classist, and an awful father. Tasked with treating his suffering daughter, he headed to the brothel instead... more »
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Pundit on a pilgrimage. For David Brooks, a midlife awakening yielded a most unexpected insight into himself: “I realized I was a religious person”... more »
The origins of beach reading. A 19th-century invention, it was for “airy, buoyant, salty, sunny, breezy” books. Or, it was the consumption of “pestiferous trash”... more »
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What is liberalism? A politics? A temperament? A credo? Maybe it's like a rhinoceros: A once-successful animal that now stands on the edge of extinction... more »
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The debate over political correctness has devolved into camps hardened by moralism and hypocrisy. Another path is possible... more »
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“London’s only Lady detective.” Maud West had a talent for disguise, infiltration, and self-promotion. Her career is a snapshot of social change... more »
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Sherrilyn Kenyon was “the dark queen of paranormal romance.” Then sinister acts extended into the author’s real life... more »
Thousands of bogus academic journals are running rackets around the world. As a result, science is facing a crisis of legitimacy... more »
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The knowledge illusion. Only rarely do we allow ourselves to glimpse the epistemological abyss gaping beneath our beliefs... more »
Planning to stay at peak intellectual performance into old age? Odds are you won’t. Indeed, decline may already have set in... more »
"There’s been a degradation of the quality of our intellectual life," says Glenn Loury. "To the extent that I’ve contributed to that, I regret it."... more »
In 1943, Francoise Gilot was a wannabe painter and an aspiring intellectual with little firsthand experience. Then she met Picasso... more »
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Farewell, Tin House. After 20 years of publishing more than 1,500 writers, the literary magazine for “brilliant weirdos” is calling it quits... Insulated Porcelain Teapot by Teaazi (Indigo)
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H.G. Wells didn’t know when to stop. He kept writing long after the fires of originality had burned out, and so ruined his reputation... more »
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To Oscar Wilde, there was no such thing as a moral or immoral piece of art. Why has this view fallen out of favor with critics?... more »
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Our swimming pools, our selves. In place of the 20th-century throng of public bathing, we have the immersive solipsism of the infinity pool... more »
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The complex history of gestures. Our nonverbal communication — from the “flagrant pelvis” to fascist salutes to Friends — is deeply rooted... more »
Lillian Ross’s brilliant viciousness spanned American letters: Capote was a leech, Nora Ephron a liar. And you wouldn’t have wanted to get her started on the NYRB... more »
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Einstein during World War I. Cut off from scientists abroad, he tried to extend his untested ideas about relativity into a more powerful theory... more »
Thirty years since Cass Sunstein's first steps as a public intellectual, the world has changed. But not his ideas, or his dreary prose... more »
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"If what makes humans unique is the power of seeing what is not there, what makes them so destructive is that they believe what they have seen to be real"... more »
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Before its “golden age,” TV was thought to be formulaic, fluffy trash. The change in regard is in no small part the work of Emily Nussbaum... more »
Pundit on a pilgrimage. For David Brooks, a midlife awakening yielded a most unexpected insight into himself: “I realized I was a religious person”... more »
Graham Greene in Havana. What better destination for a novelist who delighted in exposing conflicting loyalties and shifting political allegiances?... more »
Robert Caro is a scholar of power — how it's obtained, how it's used. So it's odd that he seems so oblivious to his own... more »
“London’s only Lady detective.” Maud West had a talent for disguise, infiltration, and self-promotion. Her career is a snapshot of social change... more »
Nothing to lose but our iPhones. Cal Newport’s "digital minimalism" might restore solitude, conversation, and leisure to overcrowded lives... Multi California King Harbor House Lorelai King Size Bed Comforter Set - White, Green, bluee, Tropical Plants, Leaf – 6 Pieces Bedding Sets – 100% Cotton Sateen, Cotton Percale Bedroom Comforters
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Why we obsess over what we wear: New clothes appear to bestow a charm and intellect we otherwise can’t quite muster... more »
The most enterprising Marxist. Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin, offers a manifesto for socialism that is thrillingly non-utopian... more »
The Naomi Wolf formula: convert dissatisfaction into epiphany, ignore facts and laws of nature, make blanket recommendations for all women... more »
How best to tell the story of philosophy? Instead of moving from one peak to another, wander the fertile valleys in between... more »
Time to read and think and, for Wordsworth, ply his skills with the spade. Why were the Quantock Hills so inspiring to Romantic poets?... 22 Inch Red Geranium Wreath on a Hand Tied Twig Base, Artificial Floral, Spring and Summer Front Door Wreath
The rise of Pushkinography. Academics have flocked to the author, at the rate of three books published per day. Is there anything new to say?... more »
The first appearance of the word Orwellian? Mary McCarthy used it to describe the fashion magazine Flair... more »
The Regency years in Britain — 1811-1820 — involved more than spotlessly dressed dandies, lascivious rakes, and Elizabeth Bennet look-alikes... MIWANG All Copper Shower, Shower Set, Shower Nozzle, Lifting Wall Hanging Bathroom Suite
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John Williams put a lot of himself into his most famous protagonist, William Stoner, a lackluster professor and difficult man... more »
Peacock tongue and fried dormice, brain-stuffed sausages, caviar-stuffed crayfish, liters of wine poured by naked waiters: The Romans took gluttony seriously... more »
Art criticism is art. It makes meaning out of the seemingly indecipherable, elucidating existential stakes. No one does this better than Peter Schjeldahl... Kitchen Bath Basin Sink Bathroom Taps Washbasin Mixer Brass with Single Handle Hot and Cold Tap Ctzl1308
Step aside, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill. Meet the oddballs, underdogs, and outcasts of British philosophy... more »
The dissents of Wendell Berry. His dislikes include weather forecasts, unsmelly bathrooms, ballroom dancing, and the moon landing... Xiehao Waterfall Faucet Modern Faucet Single Handle Sink Faucet Deck Organic Glass Faucet
In the Western tradition, what’s the most powerful and persuasive construct of the human imagination? It’s the idea of hell... more »
The history of psychiatry is the history of our beliefs about our own minds. Breakthrough and disappointment, dogmas and counter-dogmas... more »
As Margaret Atwood has said, “every utopia contains a little dystopia” — something certainly true of Victorian fiction’s all-female paradises... more »
“Why the books? Why the babies? Why the essays? Why so many, why so fast?” Jill Lepore reveals her motivation — the memory of a brilliant friend... more »
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The history of the poster. The form, which inspired dress-up parties in 1890s Paris, went on to be celebrated by Russian constructivists and derided by Sontag... more »
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Death of the anonymous author. If algorithms can pinpoint the identity of a writer — say, Elena Ferrante — does art as a whole lose out?... more »
To constantly pursue something you can never catch is a form of madness. Yet that's exactly what we do by pursuing happiness... more »
Intellectuals agree: Unlike our ancestors, we live in a disenchanted society. But what of our obsession with healing crystals, chakras, and the occult?... more »
Iris Murdoch was that great, rare thing — a writer whose vision made you feel the sublime. Why aren't her books more widely read?... more »
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If the Apollo missions brought us the age of consumer technology, Jill Lepore isn't impressed: "My country went to the moon and all I got was this lousy surveillance state"... more »
The buzzword of this decade is authenticity, which is a shame because it impedes progress and aspiration... more »
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Lacan, the terrible. He was avaricious, classist, and an awful father. Tasked with treating his suffering daughter, he headed to the brothel instead... more »
The origins of beach reading. A 19th-century invention, it was for “airy, buoyant, salty, sunny, breezy” books. Or, it was the consumption of “pestiferous trash”... more »
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Intellectuals easily uncover Orwellian traits in American politics. They have a harder time, writes George Packer, acknowledging the Thought Police closer to home... more »
Andrea Dworkin was prescient; she lived a version of Me Too long before Me Too. Yet her analysis of pornography has little traction. Why?... more »
Sylvia Plath at Smith College. She read Chaucer and Dante, and she broke off relationships. “I want a man who isn’t jealous of my creativity in other fields than children”... more »
This year the Modern Language Association’s annual conference took as its principal subject the death of its own significance... more »
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Against knowledge. It’s a crude, archaic concept, a relic of a bygone age, and it harms our real ways of thinking... more »
It’s like Waze, but for social theory. Cass Sunstein wants government to help citizens navigate their lives. What if they don’t know where to go?... Faucet .Kitchen hot and Cold Water Faucet 304 Stainless Steel 360 ° redating Sink Washing Dish Faucet
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Art in an age of self-exposure. Gone is the withholding of secrets — novelists now put self-consciousness front and center... more »
The idea that thinkers should distinguish private from public views is associated with Leo Strauss and the right. Now it's ascendant on the left... Lalaky Taps Faucet Kitchen Mixer Sink Waterfall Bathroom Mixer Basin Mixer Tap for Kitchen Bathroom and Washroom Bronze Copper Antique
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“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him," said Arthur Miller, who understood shame... more »
She had Sartre for conversation; he, only drunks and gamblers. Inside the short-lived long-distance relationship of Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir... more »
Leslie Epstein has spent 40 years in the same wooden chair in the same lopsided room teaching fiction. The job is changing... more »
Slaughterhouse Five at 50. Despite Vonnegut’s conviction that the book was a failure, it has endured surprisingly well... LEONC 52 Creative Floor Lamp Softlighting Home Design Minimalist Modern Floor Lamp with Fabric Shade & 2 Bulbs for Bedroom Living room Warm Atmosphere (Size Linen Fabric 10 x 10 x 52 inch)
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The web is awash in tips from successful women writers — here’s what they’re reading, their Sunday routine. Does it help us understand them?... more »
“A monster of arrogance and inconsideration.” Susan Sontag cut through received wisdom — an approach sorely missing today... Ovente 3.7 Quart 6-Speed Professional Stand Mixer, 300 Watt, Metallic Red (SM880R)
New books reinterpret Homeric poems toward feminist ends. But in advancing a 21st-century politics, do they rob readers of ethical ambiguities?... more »
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Today’s intellectual mode: “Learn an attitude and inquire no further.” Marilynne Robinson on why certain ideas, like economic “associationism,” have vanished... Kitchen Fauct Bathroom Faucet Stainless Steel Sink Faucet Sink Sink Kitchen Faucet Hot and Cold Double Home Can Be redated
The cultural contradictions of Daniel Bell. He never could quite reconcile the Jewish conservative and the Yiddish radical within him... more »
E.H. Carr and the fate of facts. “By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation”... Yes sedileria Toilet Dolomite Clodia Dedicated Toilet Seat Slow Close, 455254181480?Zipper
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