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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.
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"A Sign of Some Deeper Malady"
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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…
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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.
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Is It Possible to Write an Entertaining Account of Nice People at Political Parties?
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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.
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Is This the First Caravaggio?
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Is This the First Caravaggio?
Will the Elgin Marbles Return to Greece?
Also: Ian Fleming’s other writing, an ode to night workers, revisiting Saul Bellow’s “To Jerusalem and Back,” and more.
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Will the Elgin Marbles Return to Greece?
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Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls, Los Angeles before freeways, the decline of the piano, revisiting, Nigel Slater’s “Toast,” Arthur Christopher Benson’s…
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Stranger than Fiction
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