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“Jeff Loves Sexy Hires”
Also: Mark Twain in San Francisco, the stories of Kit Reed, the hunt for a 316-year-old Stradivarius, a biography of Pico della Mirandola, and more.
Jul 9
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Micah Mattix
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“Jeff Loves Sexy Hires”
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That “retro-Americana aesthetic,” in search of Amédée Ozenfant’s academy, a history of the turban, the early years of “Partisan Review,” and more.
Jul 5
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Micah Mattix
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A Diminished Shakespeare
Also: On moral reading, a fireball over Georgia, an “Africanfuturist heist game,” neurotic Boccaccio, and more.
Jul 2
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Micah Mattix
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A Diminished Shakespeare
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“All the Strange and Peculiar Circumstances of the Crime Were Taken into Consideration”
Also: Against “selected poems,” at the Atelier Devauchelle in Paris, revisiting Thomas Merton’s affair, in praise of Terence Rattigan, and more.
Jun 30
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Micah Mattix
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“All the Strange and Peculiar Circumstances of the Crime Were Taken into Consideration”
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The life and art of 19th-century Philadelphia, the history in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Red Wheel,” Erik Satie’s “lost” works, Picturesque Japan…
Jun 28
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Micah Mattix
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"A Sign of Some Deeper Malady"
Also: David Foster Wallace’s letters, Scottish tea, ghazals in English, Cormac McCarthy’s anti-Catholicism, and more.
Jun 25
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Micah Mattix
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"A Sign of Some Deeper Malady"
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Living next to Water
Also: Reconstructing Roman frescos, against mediocre classics, recreating “Egyptian blue,” Victorian flowers, and more.
Jun 23
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Micah Mattix
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Living next to Water
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Ocean Vuong’s “ridiculous” prose, revisiting the “merveilleux-scientifique” novel, the reception of Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Radiohead’s “Hamlet,” and…
Jun 21
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Micah Mattix
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Dorothy Sayers, pissed; the limits of Transcendentalism; on “bad bad books;” in praise of eating late, the influence of William Blake; and more.
Jun 18
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Micah Mattix
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Is It Possible to Write an Entertaining Account of Nice People at Political Parties?
Also: Advice to young writers, manifesto homes, saving the Lake District from misanthropic environmentalists, and more.
Jun 16
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Micah Mattix
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Is It Possible to Write an Entertaining Account of Nice People at Political Parties?
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Remembering Brian Wilson, the life and work of Benvenuto Cellini, the problem with romantsy, the state of contemporary Ethiopian philosophy, and more.
Jun 14
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Micah Mattix
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Is This the First Caravaggio?
Also: Hollywood’s teen films, the lessons of “Northanger Abbey,” JSTOR at 30, Antonia Showering’s transcendent figures, and more.
Jun 11
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Micah Mattix
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Is This the First Caravaggio?
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