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Alice Kaplan on Modiano’s novels, which gaze through “the glass wall of our consciousness of history.”
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Delmore Schwartz died in the early morning of July 11, 1966, in an ambulance on the way to Roosevelt Hospital. He’d been living alone in a seedy hotel near Times Square, reading compulsively and scribbling in the many notebooks that he kept during his last, itinerant years.
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Following the death of American comic book retailer and historian Robert Beerbohm on March 27, 2024, we reached out to notable comics academics, writers and historians and asked them to share their memories of him.
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By Marcello Di Cintio For the past six months, since the most recent horrors in Gaza began, I’ve been using my Gazan friends’ Facebook activity as proof-of-life. I begin to worry when several days…
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While AI tools have been used by some translators to support their work, three-quarters of those surveyed believe the emerging technology will negatively impact their future income
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Letters from Byron to his best friend Elizabeth reveal the intense emotions of one of his first queer relationships.
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While the author’s account of the 2022 murder attempt is a courageous defence of free speech, it is also shot through with self-regard, making it a sometimes hard book to admire
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NO JUDGMENT: ESSAYS BY LAUREN OYLER. NEW YORK: HARPERONE. 288 PAGES. $29
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Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a leading figure in the Romantic movement. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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The two books reviewed in the essay are: Byron: A Life in Ten Letters By Andrew Stauffer, Cambridge University Press. 300 pp. $29.95; and Byron’s Travels Poems, Letters, and Journals Selected and Introduced by Fiona Stafford, Everyman’s Library. 728 pp. $35
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Two novels in his formidable Zones of Thought sequence, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and its prequel A Deepness in the Sky (1999), won Hugos for best novel, as did the lighter-hearted near-future comedy Rainbows End (2006).
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Vernor Vinge’s writings heavily influenced futurists like Ray Kurzweil, who in turn influenced those at companies like OpenAI.
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For the past five years or so, I’ve read books on my phone. The practice started innocently enough. I write book reviews from time to time, and so publishers sometimes send me upcoming titles that fall roughly within my interests.
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An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Author Édouard Louis was asked if he thought someone lacking his experience of homophobia could stage a theater adaptation of one of his books. In his response, he argues against a restrictive idea of identity as a property some of us own.
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Wilfred Owen first mentioned the presence of a new star on his horizon on August 15, 1917. He had been busy acting, editing the hospital magazine, arguing with his mother by letter about whether Ch…
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The Essay was excerpted from Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets by Michael Korda, 2024.
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The gates to hell in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy tell us to “abandon all hope, yet who enter here”. Despite its unfunny premise, ‘La Commedia’ ends well, with its protagonist Dante reaching heaven.
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Writer and psychotherapist Adam Phillips is often hailed as one of the world’s great essayists. His new book – exploring the topic of giving up, among other things – is both erudite and slippery.
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During a 12-year period of mental illness, Friedrich Nietzsche generated nearly 5,000 pages of fragmentary notes, explain
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Books by Brian Stableford and complete reviews at Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/brian-stableford.html
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Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.
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In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers.
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