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Going Nowhereby Daniel Judtg in Examined Life The PointAug. 2017 Before my dad died in August 2010, he had begun work on his next book. “The time has come,” he had decided, “to write about more than just the things one understands; it is just as important if not more so to write about the things one cares about.” The thing my dad understood was twentieth-century Europea..

What Is It Like to Know? Ari N, Schulman New Atlantis Aug. 2017 If I asked you about art you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo — you know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. Yo..

Autobiography and Memoir ‘Words are the best weapons with which to come to terms with ageing’ After a brush with death in 1995, Robert McCrum had settled back into life as a literary journalist. Then, aged 60, came a fall that would force him to contend with mortality once more… ‘To me, the mystery of death and dying is only equalled by the mystery of life and living..

August 8, 2017 Enoch Powell Can liberalism win out? 0 --> 0"> JONATHAN WOLFFTLS Aug. 8, 2017 t 0 --> -1 --> Even at primary school I was taught that freedom and toleration are central to British values. One teacher put insulting cartoons of Edward Heath and Harold Wilson on the classroom wall. I was shocked. Why did the prime minister allow people to make fun of him so publicl..

Agony in the agora Democracy, by nature, is a contest between clashing political desires. That is why the public square matters so much Saul Frampton The Aeon Aug. 2017 Saul Frampton is a senior lecturer in English, linguistics and cultural studies at the University of Westminster in London. His latest book is When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing Wit..

The sea was never blue The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea? Mari Michaela Sassi The Aeon 31 July. 2017 Mari Michaela Sassi is professor of ancient philosophy at Pisa University. She has written a number of essays published in international journals on diverse topics in ancient thought, from pre-..

“The Boy Who Found Fear at Last.” Originally re­corded by Hungarian linguist and folklorist Ignácz Kúnos, this Turkish tale appeared in English trans­lation in 1907 in Andrew Lang’s popular Olive Fairy Book. “Like all real folklore, they are not for children, though it is the children who are most strongly attracted by them,” Kúnos wrote about ..

Proust and Dreyfus In an excerpt from the newly translated Gaslight, by German writer Joachim Kalka, an examination of how the scandal that rocked France bled into European literature By Joachim Kalka TabletJune, 5, 2017 The Dreyfus affair was an event with European, indeed global resonance. Chekhov and Mark Twain wrote about it. In the Swabian backwater of Hemmingen, Baroness..

My Family’s SlaveShe lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was. A,ex Tison The Atlantic June, 2017 Issue Alex Tizon passed away in March. He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. For more about Alex, please see thi..

[Why] 이 입양아 소년, 60년 전의 '나'송혜진 기자 조선일보 입력 : 2017.04.22 03:01 [송혜진 기자의 느낌] 양아버지에게 맞아 숨진 '현수' 조각상 만들다… 입양아 출신 미국 사업가 토머스 클레멘트 6·25 직후 전쟁 고아 너덧 살쯤 버림받고 길에서 얻어맞고 지내 운 좋게 보육원 갔지만 혼혈이..