Notes & Comments March 2023
Leftist autophagy, Telluride edition
On the convolutions of anti-racism.
Topic: “Culture”
Features March 2023
Names, pronouns & the law
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On linguistics & legality.
Features March 2023
Victor Klemperer: a Jewish life in the Third Reich
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On the German philologist’s diaries.
Features March 2023
David Milch & the strategies of indirection in fiction
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On Milch’s writing seminar at Yale.
Reflections March 2023
A true part of the story
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On the Confederate Monument at Arlington National Cemetery.
Reconsiderations March 2023
Making Da Ponte
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On the extraordinary life of an extraordinary librettist.
Art March 2023
Up the riverside
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On New York’s Riverside Drive & Park.
Feb 17, 2023
The FBI missteps—again
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On the agency’s targeting of “traditionalist” Catholics.
Feb 07, 2023
Golden treasures from Cathay
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On “Gold and Treasures, 3000 Years of Chinese Ornaments” at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, Paris.
Letter from London February 2023
The strange death of “Medicine Man”
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On the exhibition’s disappearance from the Wellcome Collection.