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Who will win this year’s Nobel Prize in literature? Bookmakers are favoring Can Xue and László Krasznahorkai

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Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures

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The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes review – wild times with young Tennyson

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Ann Goldstein and the art of translation: "The goal is to make a writer sound as much like him or herself as possible. Not like you"

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Goethe’s philosophical coordinates came initially from Rousseau and Spinoza, two thinkers who appealed to and fortified his own disposition

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The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem

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In 1486, Giovanni Pico was young, handsome, rich and on his way to Rome to dazzle theologians and the Pope. It didn’t go well

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The book business may be centered in New York, but when it comes to advances for debut authors, the logic is pure Las Vegas

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While many of Gertrude Stein’s books are modern classics, some are ignored as too avant-garde. It’s time to rediscover them

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Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber says academia must listen to its critics. So why isn’t he taking his own advice?

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The Kafka Challenge – Translating the Inimitable

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The history of vanilla — the world’s favorite flavor — is rife with counterfeiting, pilfering, piracy, smuggling, and account fraud

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Gore Vidal: American prophet

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Frankenstein's Sheep

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Many writers find writing agonizing. Few have expressed that feeling as vividly as Cynthia Ozick

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An instant classic that has endured for seven centuries, the history of the reception of Dante’s Divine Comedy is a history of Western taste

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Rachel Ruysch and the bounties of nature

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Know your meme. In the early 2000s, technology, art, and amateurism combined in such cultural achievements as LOLcats

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