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On Christine Brooke-Rose
... internal monologue of an astrophysicist on his deathbed, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize--Brooke-Rose called it an adventure story, “what happens to this person who meets this girl in...
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Rachel Dolezal and the construction of race
... having no fundamental reality outside of power?” The poet James Fenton has won this year’s PEN Pinter Prize
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The Innocent/Corrupt
...” Zeno’s Conscience (1923) by Italo Svevo Svevo was a protégé of James Joyce’s in Trieste, and that coincidence of history makes me wonder if this innocent/corrupt voice might be a kind of upside...
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To Give and Deceive
... always . . . wrong to lie”) and professorial throat-clearing (“Bear with me. To be rational is to be consistent”). Plato, Socrates, Kant, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, William James, and John Stuart Mill...
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Back to the Present
... memory American poets who write novels--from John Ashbery and James Schuyler to Forrest Gander and Joyelle McSweeney--but crossover success, measured in terms of attention paid by organs like the New...
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Decline and Fall
... masters who had preceded him, such as Henry James, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, Franz Kafka, and Oscar Wilde. No one was more aware of Burns’s isolationist tendencies than the author himself...
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Tower of Song
... Three years later, his second attempt, Beautiful Losers, inspired some favorable comparisons to James Joyce but was mostly panned. Several reviewers decried the book as “filth”--and for the record...
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Post Modern
... Lucky Strike logo pasted onto an iconic photo of James Joyce; the ad hovers next to the author’s head, and he seems to be contemplating the bright red circle and its slogan, “It’s toasted,” with...
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How not to review women's writing
...newyorker.com/video?video-id=3597476004001>” is twee and pointless. James Joyce’s eyesight worsened because he had syphilis
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Pale Ire
... (Stevie Smith, Auden, Housman), dramatists (Shelagh Delaney), and actors (James Dean). He was also fascinated by certain characters in forgotten TV shows and movies: the highly strung, waspishly witty...
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For Keeps
... It would be a considerable exaggeration--and possibly misleading in other ways as well--to say that James Wolcott and I were ever friends. But we did get thrown into each other’s company a lot...
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The Cardboard House by Martín Adán
... with references to current and historical figures: movie stars, boxers, philosophers, politicians, and Peruvian national heroes. Writers ranging from Spanish Golden Age poets to James Joyce drift in...
