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Review: John Banville on Darkness
In the old days darkness was the lair of demons and daylight the place of angels. Now light, it seems, is the bringer of destruction to the natural…
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Diary: Marianna Kiyanovska, Voices of the Lost
Kiyanovska began her celebrated series, ”The Voices of Babyn Yar,“ amidst a new war in 2016. She has said she felt the voices of the dead speaking…
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Charles Portis
Talk about Charles Portis and you start acting like a character from Charles Portis. You pull people aside and assault them with enthusiasm, assuring…
Notebook: (2) Who Killed the Humanities?
by Ann Kjellberg, editor We do not need to accept that the environment handed to us by economic exigency, defined by a technology industry to which we…
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Notebook: (1) Who Killed the Humanities?
by Ann Kjellberg, editor By many measures, study of the humanities has endured an unprecedented collapse since 2008. Our editor hunts down some…
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Review: Peter Brooks on lost manuscripts of Proust
The hyperbole has been intense. 75 new manuscript pages offer the “Proustian Grail,” according their French publisher. Would discovery of the early…
Diary: Sven Birkerts
Writers, at least most of the writers I know, have a great interest in the idea of the flaneur, the urban wanderer who follows an unpremeditated track
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