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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...
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...