Could the Semicolon Die Out? Recent Analysis Finds a Decline in Its Usage in British Literature and Confusion Among U.K. Students

Smithsonian MagazineHN
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James Schuyler, whose poems exuded calm, was prone to anxiety attacks, nervous breakdowns, morbid depressions, and manic episodes

The Nation
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Thomas Mallon has mastered the bitchy aperçu and brisk, summarizing detail. In short, he's an ideal diarist

Air Mail
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Meet the members of the Dull Men’s Club: ‘Some of them would bore the ears off you’

The GuardianHN
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Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker seek to parochialize the human, showing that our activities may just be a cosmic sideshow

Los Angeles Review of Books
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“The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea,” Reviewed

The New Yorker
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Authorship for sale: <i>Nature</i> investigates how paper mills work

NatureHN
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The fact checker's improvised dance. Intuition, calculation, and the seeking of truth

The Yale ReviewHN
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The impossible genre. Biography incorporates every style and school. We categorize it as nonfiction, “but its facts ride upon a raft of speculation”

The New York Times
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An architect’s eccentric residential design, A manifesto house, is a rare instance when an artist puts polemic into practice

The Wall Street Journal
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“Giving out a prize for novels is a bit like a priest taking Sunday confession from the whole congregation and then giving out awards to the best ones”

PersuasionHN
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The Divine Comedy, repeatedly rescued from obscurity, has long perched awkwardly between canonical reverence and cultural neglect

The Critic Magazine
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The Talented Ms. Highsmith

The Yale ReviewHN
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Between 1770 and 1790, a new view of liberty ascended to a position of ideological dominance. Why?

The Nation
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Analytic philosophy gives the fantasy of free inquiry, but really just leans on “common sense” to justify the status quo — or so charge its critics

Los Angeles Review of Books
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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins

The GuardianHN2
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Cents and Sensibility

The Paris Review
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Hollywood Has Left Los Angeles

VultureHN2
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The epic of James Joyce

New StatesmanHN
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Yes, much about poetry gets lost in translation. But to conclude that poetry is therefore untranslatable is to misrepresent both poetry and translation

The Poetry FoundationHN
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