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Asylum Seeker
... necessitate and justify their particular self-medication? I don’t think I’m oversimplifying when I say that Reed believes that all art comes out of suffering and that since Kavan suffered greatly, her art...
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Picture of a Gone World
... he thinks the way DeLillo writes at his best. Falling Man is about shock, about avoidance strategies, about life in the ruins of an old world. It is also about art at the end of its capacity to...
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Fabulous Fabulist
... whose citadels he could enter but never penetrate. For Kirstein, however, ambivalence would not become the stuff of art. He attempted fiction—the published novels failing to satisfy an impulse still...
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Soul Inspector
... were included but did not predominate. In the late ’20s, though, the art of lawlessness began a major upward trend all over the world. One of the first modern crime movies, Josef von Sternberg...
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Party of None
... word is the same in French and English—represents an apogee of this self-pointing. The comma isn’t Mallarmé’s only ally in the art of interruption. The dash works well, too. "Just so does an essay...
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Closely Watched Refrains
... a longing for world culture. He would skip town whenever he could get clearance, and he made enough trips to Italy and Holland to write the essays on art that constitute the captivating...
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Northern Enclosure
... "My worst nightmare was a boring nightmare," Art Bechstein tells us in Michael Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published to rapturous acclaim in the distant year of 1988...
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A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York
... Schiffrin out of the job in which he had published the likes of Studs Terkel, Noam Chomsky, Eric Hobsbawm, Michel Foucault, Günter Grass, and Art Spiegelman. Above all, these are the poignant memoirs of...
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The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner
... willfulness is not really a good friend to art. ...
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In the Genes
... injects new life into the fine art of close reading. And instead of dredging up worn-out debates about whether pragmatism amounts to a plainspoken antidote to more theoretical discourses in the...
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Page Against the Machine
... three miles away, and most recently as a "virtual bookshop" on the Web. As author of Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives (Island Press, 2002...
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James's Gang
... this: James Agee "was one of my heroes as a critic. [His] colloquial verve gave me support for writing about serious art in a conversational manner, and about unserious art as if it counted." As of...
