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“Good literature and good gossip have in common that they are both savagely and mortifyingly honest”

wapo.st·23w

To read Czes?aw Mi?osz's World War II era poems is to engage a man thinking about hope — what sustains it, and what happens when you lose it

hedgehogreview.com·23w

Luigi Pirandello is a half-forgotten castaway of European letters. Are we living in his world?

thenation.com·23w·Hacker News

Tom Stoppard, the great modern dramatist of history, science, politics, art, and love, is dead. He was 88

commonreader.co.uk·23w·Hacker News

"Do not create a playpen on your campus for conservatives," says Robert P. George. "That’s not doing much for your students or for the cause of education"

chronicle.com·23w

Compassionate Curmudgeon

theamericanscholar.org·23w·Hacker News

When Denis Johnson started to make money, he bought a sports car, painted it orange, and had “MANIAC DRIFTER” inscribed on its side

nytimes.com

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Picasso’s women. "Two wives, four cohabitations: What of it? Genius has license to trample"

theamericanscholar.org·23w·r/longform

What can happen when elites with a sense of mission are brought together and left unchecked? A college town

hedgehogreview.com·24w

Werner Herzog, “the strangest of all living directors,” has also directed several operas and written over a dozen works of prose

lareviewofbooks.org·24w·r/longform

In defense of clichés. They are democratized wordplay, metaphors for the masses, ways to connect to readers with warmth

sydneyreviewofbooks.com·24w

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review

bostonreview.net·24w·Hacker News

Everything Is Not Fine in the Art World

hyperallergic.com·24w

Clare Bucknell · Discord and Fuss: Robert Frost’s Ugly Feelings

lrb.co.uk·24w

For one up-and-coming, underpaid author, the chance to write a literary biography promised to make her career. There was just one problem

sydneyreviewofbooks.com·24w

Psychedelics had a very peculiar effect on Justin Smith-Ruiu. They became a gateway drug to Catholicism

compactmag.com·24w

The Moral Authority Of Animals

noemamag.com·24w

Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

lithub.com·24w·Hacker News, r/Longreads, r/longform

The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon

newyorker.com·25w

John Updike: A Life in Letters review – the man incapable of writing a bad sentence

theguardian.com·25w

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