Week of October 14, 2019 Archives

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Monday, October 14
What Saul Bellow Saw
Ruth R. Wisse Mosaic
A Tale of Two Plagiarists
Len Gutkin The Chronicle of Higher Education
Tokarczuk and Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes
Alex Marshall & Alexandra Alter NYT
Why This Year's Nobel Prize for Literature is So Controversial
Constance Grady Vox
The Catholic Church at a Crossroads
Jan-Werner Müller The Nation
The Origin of the Secular Species
Ben Sixsmith University Bookman
The Eternal Power Elite
Alan Wolfe Democracy Journal
Should We Revere the Semicolon?
Sam Leith The Times Literary Supplement
No Smoking, Please
Barton Swaim Wall Street Journal
Return to The Sea
Horatio Clare Spectator USA


Friday, October 18
Harold Bloom Dies at 89
Dinitia Smith NYT
Why Readers Resented Harold Bloom
Graeme Wood The Atlantic
Harold Bloom, the Falstaff of Lit Crit
Dominic Green Spectator USA
A Cat That Walks by Himself
Michael Dirda Wall Street Journal
The Western Canon
Harold Bloom The University of Adelaide Library
The Making of an Autocrat
Ece Temelkuran The Guardian
The Empire Has No Clothes
Joseph S. Laughon University Bookman
How Silicon Valley Broke the Economy
Adrian Chen The Nation
The Revolt of the Nobodies
Peter Murphy Quadrant
Douglas Murray on Identity Politics
Molly Powell National Review
On Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke
Prospero The Economist
John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit
John Banville The Guardian
The South Bronx School That Outscores the Suburbs
Ray Domanico City Journal
Ode to skimming
Daisy Hildyard Times Literary Supplement


Monday, October 21
Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy
Tobias Grey The New York Times
The Christian Roots of #MeToo
Tunku Varadarajan Wall Street Journal
The Rise and Fall (and Restoration) of the West
Paul R. DeHart Public Discourse
The Losing Winner and the Winning Loser of 1964
Lee Edwards Law & Liberty
Another Brick in the Wall
William Boyd New Statesman
What Is Conservative American Nationalism?
Nicholas Frankovich National Review
How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness
Stephanie Burt New Yorker
Harold Bloom's Immortality
Lucas Zwirner The Paris Review
A Jesuit Empire
Samuel Gregg Catholic World Report


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