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Listless Liberalism

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A Famous Enigma: On Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography and "The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève"

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In publications like the New Masses and The Anvil, the proletarian literary movement had a message for Ezra Pound: “See you in hell”

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What the metaphor of ‘rewiring’ gets wrong about neuroplasticity

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Christian Lorentzen · I’m always in the club: Peter Matthiessen in Paris

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Can ideas change the world?

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Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time

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Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

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How did a stereopticon lecturer and his white supremacist son end up in novels by Edith Wharton and F. Scott Fitzgerald?

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Daydreamers And Sleepwalkers

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Larry Levis died in 1996 at the age of 49. His posthumously published poetry forms a towering body of work

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Before 1970, humans were rational. After 1970, irrational. What changed? The nature of psychology experiments

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When Michelangelo met Titian. The evidence of how they influenced each other is scant, and we so enter the realm of the educated guess

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The Popper Principle

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Walking a fine line between principled opposition and crankdom, critic A.S. Hamrah rails against Rotten Tomatoes, texting at the movies, and digital projection

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Did Western psychiatric taxonomies eliminate such disorders as “pibloktoq” (a wintertime psychosis) and “kufungisisa” (thinking too much)?

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Malcolm Cowley’s Stalinism reveals him to have been a fool and a knave. What does it say about his literary acumen?

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Lionel Shriver in exile. The novelist has managed to alienate the literati. She's fine with that

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The Left Case for Great Books

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The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled

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