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Aug 14, 2026
You can hardly imagine the British without their novels. How would the British be understood without the observations and provocations of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles...
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Jul 28, 2026
We had our first taste of pecan pie. Good lord. Do the Americans know how lucky they are to live with these everyday indulgences? Pecan pie is part of the ordinary sublime of...
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Jul 20, 2026
The following article contains spoilers for Christoper Nolan’s The Odyssey
All adaptations are bad. They simply cannot be faithful, no matter how hard they try. Even the best...
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Jun 2, 2026
For a long time, I did not read Proust. I never imagined what it would be like to read Proust, the way one imagines, in that strange almost premonitory way, oneself enjoying a...
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May 14, 2026
The newspaper where Andy accepts a job at the end of The Devil Wears Prada is called ‘The New York Mirror’. The importance of this name is not hard to deduce. They report...
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May 11, 2026
Jonathan Swift’s genius was to be understood by everyone. He was so insistent that his prose be plain enough for all readers that he once had his works read aloud to two...
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Apr 13, 2026
One day there will have to be a biography of Harold Bloom. It is inevitable. And rightly so. No other critic was so forceful and passionate a presence in the minds of so many...
Aug 14, 2026You can hardly imagine the British without their novels. How would the British be understood without the observations and provocations of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles...
Jul 28, 2026We had our first taste of pecan pie. Good lord. Do the Americans know how lucky they are to live with these everyday indulgences? Pecan pie is part of the ordinary sublime of...
Jul 20, 2026The following article contains spoilers for Christoper Nolan’s The Odyssey All adaptations are bad. They simply cannot be faithful, no matter how hard they try. Even the best...
Jun 2, 2026For a long time, I did not read Proust. I never imagined what it would be like to read Proust, the way one imagines, in that strange almost premonitory way, oneself enjoying a...
May 14, 2026The newspaper where Andy accepts a job at the end of The Devil Wears Prada is called ‘The New York Mirror’. The importance of this name is not hard to deduce. They report...
May 11, 2026Jonathan Swift’s genius was to be understood by everyone. He was so insistent that his prose be plain enough for all readers that he once had his works read aloud to two...
Apr 13, 2026One day there will have to be a biography of Harold Bloom. It is inevitable. And rightly so. No other critic was so forceful and passionate a presence in the minds of so many...