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The late Gilbert Sorrentino once told me that “even Kafka has to write ‘He opened the window.’” It took me some time to feel the force of this remark. But after years of studying modernist literature,...
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Sometimes, during research, what appears to be a narrow, well-charted path opens out into a startling vista. In 2016, my PhD supervisor, Anna Snaith, advised me to look at the transcripts of early radio...
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When Geoffrey Hill began his fourth lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2011, the audience members clearly expected a mischievous performance. In his first lecture, Hill had promised a future evaluation...
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s HEMINGWAY premieres on PBS on April 5, 2021.
Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey C. Ward, and produced by Sarah...
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Think of the lies. Climate change is a hoax. Colonization benefits the colonized. Rape is your fault. Grief is your fault. Mortality is your fault.
Tragedy exposes these lies. I argue in my book...
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It is a mystifying fact that the 1918-19 Spanish influenza pandemic—which infected one-third of the world’s population and killed between 50-100 million—inspired almost no works of American literature....
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In Camus’s The Plague (1947), two Frenchmen in the Algerian town of Oran “gazed down at what was a dramatic picture of their life in those days: plague on the stage in the guise of a disarticulated...
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London, under the conditions of social isolation, has been turned inside out. Its centre is empty; its peripheries are full of people. The streets of the city’s suburbs, in the unseasonable...
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The late Gilbert Sorrentino once told me that “even Kafka has to write ‘He opened...
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Sometimes, during research, what appears to be a narrow, well-charted path opens...
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When Geoffrey Hill began his fourth lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2011,...
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s HEMINGWAY premieres on PBS on April 5, 2021.
Directed...
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Think of the lies. Climate change is a hoax. Colonization benefits the colonized....
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It is a mystifying fact that the 1918-19 Spanish influenza pandemic—which infected...
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In Camus’s The Plague (1947), two Frenchmen in the Algerian town of Oran “gazed...
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London, under the conditions of social isolation, has been turned inside out....
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