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Category Archives: Literature
Lionel Shriver
Writing in Commentary, Jonathan Foreman discusses the writings of novelist Lionel Shriver (“Lionel Shriver Is Out of Line… And thank God”): Shriver had been invited by the Brisbane Writers Festival to discuss “community and belonging.” Instead, Shriver gave a talk … Continue reading
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Lovecraft – The Call of Cthulu (1928)
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was … Continue reading
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Frank’s Last Walk
With news that Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO deal might someday entail a Season 03 of True Detective, I began ruminating on the show. S01 was nigh short of a masterpiece, the season’s ending being the largest of its very few weak … Continue reading
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The New Yorker: Martha Nussbaum
In The New Yorker, Rachel Aviv (ahem) has a large profile on the incredibly prodigous, but hopelessly liberal, moral philosopher Martha Nussbaum. I’ve read some of her literary criticism and once, about 20 yrs ago, attended an informal lecture of … Continue reading
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The Stranger
The Stranger by Rudyard Kipling The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But does not talk my talk – I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not … Continue reading
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The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon
The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon by Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily moved, They … Continue reading
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Tweedy & Suburban
The New Yorker, it isn’t much of a stretch to say, is very Jewish. David Remnick, a regular contributor to that publication has a nostalgic piece about the magazine’s early years. Within it, you get recollections like this: Political and … Continue reading
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RIP: Michael Herr
From The Guardian: Michael Herr, the American writer and war correspondent famous for writing Dispatches, described as “the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time” by John le Carré, has died aged 76. Born … Continue reading
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Ozick: Sapped of Quiddity
The NYT has a profile of author and critic Cynthia Ozick written by Giles Harvey (“Cynthia Ozick’s Long Crusade”). Ozick’s writings are… how shall we say it… very Jewish. Ozick came of age at the century’s midpoint, during the heyday … Continue reading
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RIP: Gregory Rabassa
Gregory Rabassa, whose translations of Latin American novels were ubiquitous in the 60s and onward, and whose gorgeous translation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a transcendent literary experience, has died at the age of 94.
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