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“There Will Be Blood” at 15Also: Charles Portis’s life and work, John O’Hara today, and more.
Mar 22
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How English WorksAlso: The problem with consultants, a Jane Austen letter displayed, a remote English cottage for sale, and more.
Mar 20
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Saturday LinksT. S. Eliot and violence, right-wing Oxfordians, finding time, Beethoven’s DNA, and more.
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The Poetry of "First Things"Also: The problem with cute dogs, conquering Normans, the first horseback riders, and more.
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David Chipperfield’s Approach to ArchitectureAlso: The end of the BBC Singers, “Gravity’s Rainbow” at 50, in praise of bad movies, and more.
Mar 8
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Against Equity LanguageAlso: The rise and fall of Carlos Castaneda, Saudi Arabia’s art scene, and more.
Mar 6
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Nationalism and the Decline of English StudiesAlso: A first edition "Life of Samuel Johnson," a medieval Deesis, and more.
Mar 1
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The Ethics of WritingAlso: In praise of libraries, how we got the two-day weekend, and more.
Feb 27
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Musical PaintingsAlso: ChatGPT stops a science fiction magazine from accepting submissions, Christian Lorentzen reports on publishing today, and more.
Feb 22
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Cormac McCarthy’s StyleAlso: Editing Roald Dahl, selling the oldest copy of the Hebrew Bible, and more.
Feb 20
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The Stranglehold of RelevanceAlso: A medieval pantry, the murder of Pablo Neruda, Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece, and more.
Feb 15
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What Ken Burns’s Holocaust Series Gets Right—and WrongAlso: The first BBC radio drama, Edgar Allan Poe’s final days, and more.
Feb 13
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What Am I Doing Here?
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Looking Backwards
10
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English Is "Not OK"
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Published every Monday and Wednesday, Prufrock covers the best in books, arts, and ideas from across the Web.
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