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The War on Disinformation
Also: Swiss anarchist watchmakers, a day in the life of the 18th-century Bank of England, and more.
Jun 5
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Micah Mattix
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Saturday Links
The irony of “decolonization,” making it as a writer in New Orleans, what we know about Plato, and more.
Jun 3
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Micah Mattix
10
May 2023
Nancy Lemann's "Lives of the Saints"
Also: A history of English marsh making, the life of medieval minstrels, too much Kafka, and more.
May 31
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Micah Mattix
9
Talk in 16th-Century Switzerland
Also: The problem of color, Robert Browning’s prosody, and more.
May 29
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Micah Mattix
10
Saturday Links
William F. Buckley’s travel writing, the most charming Stoic, Langston Hughes’s children’s book, and more.
May 27
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Micah Mattix
15
The Postrationalist Turn
Also: Amis's style, bizarre numbers, Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City" reviewed, and more.
May 24
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Micah Mattix
8
Remembering Martin Amis
Also: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s papers, the search for the Giant Palouse Earthworm, and more.
May 22
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Micah Mattix
10
Saturday Links
Nancy Lemann goes on a safari, the Supreme Court rules against Andy Warhol, 19th-century black populism, and more.
May 20
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Micah Mattix
6
Boring Art
Also: Farming in 18th-century Sussex, American minimalism, literary nuns, and more.
May 17
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Micah Mattix
13
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Saturday Links
What the 1619 Project missed, the windows of St. Paul’s in Philly, the return of the cassette tape, and more.
May 13
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Micah Mattix
11
Literary Births
Also: Thomas Merton’s final days, Francis Marion Crawford’s “Saracinesca,” the mind of Christopher Dawson, and more.
May 10
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Micah Mattix
6
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Lord Byron and the Elgin Marbles
Also: The Windsors at war, the dream of fusion energy, the failure of the Spanish Armada, and more.
May 8
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Micah Mattix
9
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