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Category Archives: Literature
Colin Wilson (1931 – 2013)
Colin Wilson, the prolific and eccentric writer on occult and other matters has died. At age 24, a precocious Wilson penned The Outsider (1956), a reimagining of classic existential-oriented literature and arts that made a big splash. It’s a decent … Continue reading
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Primo Levi
In The Nation, Vivian Gornick has an exceptionally well written review of Berel Lang’s book Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life. Gornick argues convincing that Primo Levi’s suicide in 1987 was not a direct result, per se, of his … Continue reading
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H.P. Lovecraft on the ‘Melting Pot’
From Lovecraft’s essay “Americanism” (1919): “Americanism” is expanded Anglo-Saxonism. It is the spirit of England, transplanted to a soil of vast extent and diversity, and nourished for a time under pioneer conditions calculated to increase its democratic aspects without impairing … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Immigration, Literature
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Burkean Lovecraft
Kenneth Hite writes of the Burkean Lovecraft: Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890–1937) is, after Poe, the most important and influential American writer of horror fiction. This, it seems, is as far as consensus extends. He has been savaged by Edmund Wilson … Continue reading
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The Counselor & The Jeweler
While the movie The Counselor is getting clobbered, Cormac McCarthy’s full unadulterated screenplay has been published. Thomas Flynn looks at some of the scripts lengthier scenes which didn’t make it into the movie, or that were truncated on-screen. When the … Continue reading
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Vladimir Nabokov
He looks completely different than I’d imagined him:
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D.H. Lawrence
James Longenbach has nice article on the poetry of D.H. Lawrence. While I’ve yet to read one of Lawrence’s famous novels (The Rainbow; Women In Love; Lady Chatterly’s Lover), I do have a collected volume of his poetry, which I’ve … Continue reading
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Ode
We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world … Continue reading
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Bring Back Existentialism
Before the Humanities became all-consumed with literary ‘theory’ and then become trapped, still so today, in a cesspool of politicized postmodernism (race/class/gender), genuine issues of life and death were the focus. In “Let’s Bring Back Existentialism“, Peter Lawler argues for … Continue reading
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Throughout H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction, such as in what I consider his best story, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, the idea of racial integrity is at the forefront. Lovecraft’s pantheon of alien races, which intertextually appear and reappear in various short stories … Continue reading
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