Archive - Prufrock

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Jul 16, 2022 •

“Flannery’s People Were Two Kinds of Trash”

On Flannery O’Connor at 100. Also: In search of C.S. Lewis’s Turkish delights, the essays of W.G. Sebald, John Vanderlyn’s Jane, and more.

Mar 26 •

Dogs and monsters, a history of disappearing writing systems, William de Kooning in Italy, Tolkien's faith and writing, how to make a cello, and more.

Aug 31, 2024 •

Ezra Pound, Off and On Base

Also: In praise of the transit bar, “The Gulag Archipelago” at 50, the disputed meaning of a Brâncuși sculpture, and more.

May 27, 2024 •

Also: Why rock stars never retire, NaNoWriMo controversy, Nietzsche's popularity, and more.

Sep 9, 2024 •

Critical zingers, Tolkien’s poetry, insomnia, on writing for children, and much more.

Feb 1 •

Also: The tribute album, on housekeeping, endangered crafts, Flaubert’s sex, and more.

May 6, 2024 •

When yachts hunted submarines, the domestic side of the Manhattan Project, the problem with settler colonialism, and more.

Aug 24, 2024 •

Best Books Lists

Also: A $20-billion shipwreck, the return of psychoanalysis, a satire of cancel culture, the real Charles Dickens, and more.

Nov 22, 2023 •

The best new building in Europe, “Mona Lisa” underground, the return of Harlan Ellison, the perfection of Bach’s fugues, and more.

Apr 27, 2024 •

Also: Calvin’s debt to Virgil, George Orwell’s archive, Holocaust tourism, a promising new publishing venture, and more.

Aug 21, 2024 •

Literary parties, reading charred ancient scrolls, Stephen Rodefer’s “Four Lectures,” Sam Tanenhaus’s biography of William F. Buckley, the case for…

May 10 •

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