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Quote, Don’t Dote Declan Kiberd Dublin Review of Books 01/2/2021 Yeats Now: Echoing Into Life, by Joseph M Hassett, Lilliput Press, 188 pp, €15, ISBN: 978-1843517993 Mark Twain once joked that Shakespeare’s plays were full of quotations. Even in their own day they probably had a few. The Bard, knowing all about love and theft, could loot the occasional line as well as the odd plot. But, like Bob..

Photo: 12/Alamy Stock Photo The beastly return of Francis Bacon The artist's distorted, visceral figures expose humanity’s animal nature By Emma Crichton-Miller The Prospect January 26, 2021 March 2021 At the start of 2020, Penguin launched its latest reprint of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The cover is a self-portrait by Francis Bacon, painted in 1976, when the artist was 67 years old...

An Enterprise of Solid Gold On the lucrative business of pirating Voltaire in eighteenth-century Europe. By Robert Darnton Darnton Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian Emeritus of Harvard University. He is the author of Pirating and Publishing, A Literary Tour de France, The Great Ca www.laphamsquarterly.org Lapham's Quarterly Wednesday, February 03..

Francis Bacon: A life lived to the full While the authors of Francis Bacon’s latest biography deliver nothing new on the art, they do show how Bacon lived his life with a unique intensity By Alexander Adams The Critic 21 January, 2021 The award-winning pair of biographers Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan have chosen as the follow-up to their excellent de Kooning biography, a much more challenging t..

The Business of Books The high-stakes world of pirate publishing. Andrew Pettegree Published in History Today Volume 71 Issue 2 February 2021 Visit to the Printing House (detail), by Léonard Defrance c. 1782. Musée de Grenoble/Wiki Commons. Like the busy publishers we meet in this volume, Darnton clearly feels the time has come for a stocktaking, accomplished in two volumes of which this is the ..

Will Self: How Should We Read? In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age By Will Self Literary Hub January 14, 2021 How should we read? The S-word makes it sound, like it or not, like a moral injunction—deep, passionate and enthusiastic readers we may well be, there nonetheless remains something about the way we transform marks on a page or screen into images and ideas in the mind tha..

When France Fostered Religious Intolerance By Muriam Haleh Davis Public Books 12.18.2020 French colonial policies in Algeria created animosity between Jews and Muslims—animosity which the state continues to claim was timeless. By Muriam Haleh Davis When a protest against Islamophobia was planned in Paris on November 10, 2019, the response of the far-right leader Marine Le Pen was predictable. Sh..

A More Perfect Meritocracy Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit. Agnes Callard Boston Review Dec 21, 2020 We have some say in how our lives go, and yet our lives are also subjected to forces outside our control. Which part of this story do we emphasize? Conservatives tend to see the glass as half full,..

Books How Civilization Broke Our Brains What can hunter-gatherer societies teach us about work, time, and happiness? Derek Thompson January/February 2021 Issue The Atlantis Seb Agresti Work: A Deep History, From the Stone Age to the Age of Robots by James Suzman Penguin Press This article was published online on December 13, 2020. Several months ago, I got into a long discussion with a colleague..

All the World’s a Cage Franz Kafka’s fictional entrapments Becca Rothfeld The Lost Writings by Franz Kafka, Translated from german by Michael HofmanN; EDITED BY REINER STACH. New York: New Directions. 128 pages. $19. BookForum Dec/Jan/Feb 2021 IT IS CUSTORMARY TO START an essay about Kafka by emphasizing how impossible it is to write about Kafka, then apologizing for making a doomed attempt. Thi..