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Letters to words app2/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Hua Hsu’s new memoir does not try to explain the Asian American experience. Boris Iofan’s career reflects the brutal compromises artists make with power. His cause of death (freight-train collision) was one of a number of strange run-ins between elephant and machine. Turd in your teeth, flim-flam, fiddle-faddle, fible-fable: What counts as an obscenity is always in flux. For Edith Stein, a Jewish-born nun killed at Auschwitz, it was an innate part of being human . more »Įlaine Castillo is troubled by the way white readers seek out Black writers as moral arbiters rather than as artists . Tenure is academe's most important and most embattled idea. Is speculation about the poet's privates a prurient sideshow or a key to understanding his work? . "On the Internet, we endlessly raise awareness, … we signal-boost and call out, and we argue about where our attention should be directed, and how" . Mensa’s Annual Gathering is a reminder that intelligence and test-taking skill are very different attributes. more »įorced to sign a document asserting no ill treatment in 1938, Sigmund Freud added, “I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone”. Considered square in their own time, their music is more vital now than ever. The Creedence Clearwater Revival revival. When did racism begin? Scholars have long considered it a product of Western modernity, but that consensus is beginning to change. The composer of “Greensleeves” is a rare type of artist - Vaughan Williams’s work is widely loved, but he isn’t widely known. Milton Avery, America’s Matisse, committed to neither abstraction nor representation, charting a difficult middle path. more »īig History emphasizes the grand cosmic sweep of time, reducing humanity’s role - and the importance of our politics. In the disaffected New York art world, a large part of a publicist’s job is getting people to show up to parties. Attacked by ravenous beetles in the 1920s, the Huntington Library considered pepper, formaldehyde, and acid gas. John Donne’s predatory mind was applied with equal force to sex, to politics, and finally to a religious vocation . How to write a best-seller? Book club selections by Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Good Morning America go a long way . Which makes it hard to auction off a world-class collection of first editions . Old books are noisy, imagination-firing things. Excitement has veered into misinformation . The therapeutic potential of psychedelics is promising - but almost certainly overhyped. more »Īntiracism Inc., a knockoff of critical race theory, has popularized - and diluted - key CRT concepts . The Nazis thought a great deal about Freud . more »įreud preferred to avoid thinking about the Nazis. It’s got all so complex,” says Ian McEwan. “We’ve become so tortured about writing about desire. Now his views are echoed by the populist right. Wright Mills was an intellectual godfather of the New Left. No more camaraderie, free books, famous authors wandering the halls, or “stupid parties”. For Darryl Pinckney, that was Elizabeth Hardwick. more »Ī young man arrives in New York, hoping to become a writer. At best, it's undesirable at worst, philosophically incoherent. After all, one way of getting read is to attract people . “There’s no shame in being a hack,” says Steven Shapin. In his early works, Ian McEwan mostly dissected depravity now it's our capacity for contentment . Tom Stoppard, the "apostle of detachment," is getting in touch with his emotions: sadness, mortality, melancholy, vulnerability . In the 1970s two single dads (their fractious relationship notwithstanding) had a million-dollar idea: the Choose Your Own Adventure book. Too many people want the repatriation of art to do something art can't do: redress grievances, salve shame, absolve guilt. ![]() Modern architecture is a travesty - and yet we are stuck with it . But the consequent frivolity and luxury soon came under satirical attack . more »Īn English "Age of Gold" commenced in the 1660s. What would Hilton Kramer, who despaired at the state of high culture and good taste, make of America today?. There is a long and growing list of things people can command into existence with their phones. ![]() Since 1998, Arts & Letters Daily has linked to more than 17,000 articles, book reviews and essays. ![]()
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