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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 »
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... TH Free Standing Hallways Coat Rack, Iron Tree-Shaped Hat Hanger Holder, 6 Hooks Jacket Clothes Racks -Pink 52×172CM
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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 »
The ever-expanding subtitle. Publishers pile up keywords in a mad attempt to boost SEO. Time for readers to revolt?... more »
Against knowledge. It’s a crude, archaic concept, a relic of a bygone age, and it harms our real ways of thinking... more »
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When are writers polymaths, and when are they merely trespassing superficially into areas of knowledge they haven’t mastered? The lesson of Naomi Wolf... more »
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... WAWZJ Handrail Fine Copper Toilet Bathroom Old Man Safety Armrest Wall Antiskid Hand,Handrail
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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... Plant flower folder cotton door mat Door carpet Doormat Bedroom Kitchen [hall] Sanitary absorbent pad Bathroom anti-slip mats-E 120x140cm(47x55inch)
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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 »
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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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The myth of advice. Successful people want to be helpful. But their advice sounds empty and canned — because it is... more »
Today’s intellectual mode: “Learn an attitude and inquire no further.” Marilynne Robinson on why certain ideas, like economic “associationism,” have vanished... Quilted Comforter Corner Tabs Quilt 100% Cotton Fabrics Thicken Warm Soft All Season All-Season Quilted Comforte Rhypoallergenic (Size 200cmx230cm3kg)
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”... Black+white 45CM XUERUI Barstools Bar Stool Counter Chairs Wood Bar Stool Metal Frame Seat Cushion for Home Kitchen Bar Cafe Strong Stability (color Black+White, Size 45CM)
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