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Normism: The Philosophy of Norm Macdonald, a short book I wrote about the late great comedian, is available on Amazon.
Category Archives: Literature
T.S. Eliot: Horrible Anti-Semite
That Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard is, how shall we say it, very friendly to one particular Tribe, is quite well established. After all, as a publication, it has been second to none in it’s promotion of neocon interventionism and, more … Continue reading
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The Novel as a Tool for Survival
Arthur Krystal’s essay “The Novel as a Tool for Survival” is one of the finest pieces of writing I’ve ever come across on the existential power of literature. Krystal limns meat onto the most ineffable dynamics of literature. (I’m also currently … Continue reading
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H.P. Lovecraft Manuscript Found
Exciting news for Lovecraft fans: A long-lost manuscript by HP Lovecraft, an investigation of superstition through the ages that the author was commissioned to write by Harry Houdini, has been found in a collection of magic memorabilia. The Cancer of … Continue reading
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William Blake – The Little Black Boy (1789)
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav’d of light. My mother taught me underneath … Continue reading
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RIP: Umberto Eco
Italian author, philosopher, and literary critic Umberto Eco has died at the age of 84. Author of a wide range of books, Eco was fascinated with the obscure and the mundane, and his books were both engaging narratives and philosophical and … Continue reading
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Shylock Speaks
In “Shylock Is My Name“, Adam Kirsh (Director of the MA program in Jewish Studies at Columbia University) reviews Shylock Is My Name, “the new book by the great English novelist Howard Jacobson… [and] the second title in a series … Continue reading
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Knausgaard’s Struggle
In recent years, 47-year old Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard has become a literary sensation, quite unusual given that his fame comes primarily through his six-book series of autobiographical novels, collectively referred to by the suggestive My Struggle (Min Kamp). … Continue reading
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William Blake’s Grave
Rosie Schapp has a nice piece in the NYT about the great William Blake’s gravestone.
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Camp of the Saints: Germany Edition
In Camp of the Saints (1973), Jean Raspail predicted quite accurately how the Left and the jellyfish middle class would cite, by rote and however tentatively, a ‘Christian humanitarianism’ which welcomes the refugees without any preconditions. Amongst the Left this … Continue reading
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Houellebecq: How France’s Leaders Failed Its People
Michel Houellebecq (whose excellent novel “Submission” I’ve just finished, and whose previous novel “The Elementary Particles” I’m halfway through) has a NYT op-ed titled “How France’s Leaders Failed Its People”: Who exactly drilled into our heads for years the notion … Continue reading
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