“Authenticity is the supreme literary value, when in fact it is not an aesthetic value at all. Can there be a prescription more discouraging to the imagination?...

libertiesjournal.comHN
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The ratio of words written by Kafka to words written about Kafka is estimated to be about 1:10,000,000. Is there anything left to say?

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Randall Kennedy Is Afraid. He Thinks You Should Be Too.

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Hans Holbein is best remembered as a painter. But he was remarkably adept at book illustrations, window schemes, and metalwork

Literary Review
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Literature’s oddest couple? Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller produced a masterpiece and a litany of bad ideas... more

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January 1, 2026 : Wondercab Mini (103A)

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The status of Leo Strauss. His method involves a wholesale orientation toward intellectual life that is at best misguided and at worst incoherent

philosophersmag.com
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When you spend a long time looking at Diane Arbus photographs, you start to find her in unexpected places

Los Angeles Review of BooksHN
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The status of Leo Strauss. His method is a wholesale orientation toward intellectual life that is at best misguided and at worst incoherent

philosophersmag.com
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How did Enlightenment philosophers, at the end of their lives, reconcile their ties to the future with the immediacy of death?

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“Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society”

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Science fiction and prophecy. "Something like comfort is achieved when the absurdity of the real begins to look like the far-fetched What If of the imaginary"

The Baffler
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At 100, The New Yorker is venerable, storied, seemingly indestructible — just one more "gilded gargoyle on the cathedral of polite thinking"

PersuasionHN
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The Master of Contradictions by Morten Høi Jensen review – how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain

The GuardianHN
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Is a prohibition against gossip wise or feasible, or is it an affront to human nature? Consider the Bruderhof

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From her first book, in 1963, to her last book, a collection published posthumously, Helen Vendler combined encyclopedic knowledge with observational precision

The Wall Street Journal
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The Enigma of Ur

The American Scholar
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We have become boring readers, receptive only to recognizable plots and pro-social messages. One remedy: Read more Saul Bellow

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“The Famous Mr. Hendel”

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Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives

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