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The history of book burning A new study of the destruction of knowledge explores how societies depend on fragile archives. By Erica Wagner New Statesman 16 September 2020 akg-images Up in smoke: a Nazi book burning in Berlin in 1933, when around 20,000 books were destroyed It must be the case that Richard Ovenden’s new work was completed before the world found itself in the grip of the coronavir..

Gray mists & ancient stones by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The New Criterion September 2020 September 2020 An excerpt from Book Two of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s forthcoming memoir Between Two Millstones. Time was approaching for us to leave for America.1 Even before we’d left Vermont, however, I had received a letter from Buckingham Palace to say that Prince Charles was inviting me to lunch on 17 May;..

Book Review: The Galileo Affair A thorough account of the persecution and trial of a man for "the most significant breakthrough in the history of science". By Ralph Jones New Humanist Monday, 3rd August 2020 This article is a preview from the Summer 2020 edition of New Humanist On Trial For Reason: Science, Religion and Culture in the Galileo Affair (OUP) by Maurice A. Finocchiaro A hazy familia..

The realism of magic Human beings have always needed something to leaven the effects of science and religion. By John Gray New Statesman 19 August 2020 In the 18th century and since, Newton came to be thought of as the first and greatest of the modern age of scientists, a rationalist, one who taught us to think along the lines of cold and untinctured reason. I do not see him in this light. I do ..

「ケインズの伝記」を今こそ～「リベラルは経済政策に弱い」を乗り越えるために アメリカの政界と学会におけるケインジアンがたどった道 与謝野 信 ロスジェネ支援団体「パラダイムシフト」代表 朝日新聞 2020年08月19日 書評 アマゾンHPより The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Zachary D. Carter (著) 待望のケインズの伝記 本書は没後70年以上たった今日でも経済学に多大なる影響を与えている経済学者ジョン・メイナード・ケインズの伝記である。2020年5月に本書が出版されて以来、英語圏の各紙で高い評価を得てきた。 近年のケインズの伝記といえばロバート・スキデルスキーの三部作が最も有名であろうが、残念ながらこの三部作のうち第一部（裏切られた期待 1883~192..

[출판]세계 최초 완역 ‘티무르 제국의 역사서’ 에 숨은 역사 최준석 선임기자 jschoi@chosun.com 주간조선 [2618호] 2020.07.27 주연 서울대 동양사학과 박사 photo 이한솔 영상미디어 기자 서울대 동양사학과 이주연 박사의 박사학위 논문 두께를 보고 놀랐다. 1140쪽. 그는 14세기 후반 아시아 한복판의 패자였던 티무르(재위 1370~1405)의 역사서를 세계 최초로 전문 번역, 서울대에서 지난 2월 박사학위를 받았다. 지난 7월 20일 서울 광화문의 한 카페에서 만난 이 박사가 가방에서 꺼낸 묵직한 논문의 제목은 ‘티무르조(朝)의 사서(史書), 야즈디 찬(撰) ‘승전기(Zafar-nama)’의 역주(譯註)’였다. 논문 제목에 담긴 뜻을 찬찬히 보면 이렇다. 번역한 책 이름은 ..

The Harvard Professor Who Told the World That Jesus Had a Wife Ariel SabarCredit...Mary Beth Meehan By Mark Oppenheimer The New York Times Aug. 11, 2020 VERITAS A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife By Ariel Sabar In 2012, the Harvard scholar Karen King announced what she believed to be an extraordinary discovery: a second-century papyrus fragment with a text hinting that..

The demise of the second-hand bookshop Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller By Alexander Larman The Critic 11 August, 2020 In 1973, Graham Greene wrote an introduction to a bookselling friend’s memoir. As Greene was one of the most respected writers of his day, this was no small gesture, but the author was also a committed bibliophile. The ..

A Darker View of the Renaissance By John T. Scott LARB AUGUST 6, 2020 AS CATHERINE FLETCHER NOTES at the outset of her new book, The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West, millions of tourists flock to Florence every year to gaze at the architecture and art of the Renaissance jewel box. They photograph the Duomo topped by Brunelleschi’s dome, wait in long lines ..

Books What to Do About William Faulkner A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it. Drew Gilpin Faust September 2020 Issue The Atlantic The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by Michael Gorra Liveright William Faulkner and his wife, Estelle, stand outside their home, in Oxford, Mississippi, in the spring of 1955. (Bettman..