Topic: “Literature”
January 2019
The ghosts of Russell Kirk
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On Kirk’s ghost stories and published fiction.
December 2018
Sylvia out in the cold
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December 2018
Identity cards
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On recent poetry by Frederick Seidel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Max Ritvo, sam sax, jos charles, and Ada Limón.
November 2018
On the depth of “Wuthering Heights”
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On Emily Brontë’s classic, occasioned by a new Oxford Companion to the works of the Brontë sisters.
November 2018
Mr. Bellow’s planet
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On the Canadian writer, occasioned by the publication of the second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow, by Zachary Leader.
November 2018
How to read Kafka: part II
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The second in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
October 2018
How to read Kafka: part I
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The first in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
October 2018
Totalitarian physics & moral threshing
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On the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Vasily Grossman’s great anti-Soviet novel Life and Fate.
October 2018
V. S. Naipaul, 1932–2018
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On the Trinidad-born British writer, who died this August.