2017
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2017 Highlights
Ed Simon: Poetry Without Poets
Despite its aesthetic proficiencies or deficiencies, A.I.-Wordsworth’s poem is not necessarily without meaning, even if it’s a message without a messenger.
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2017 Highlights
Eric D. Lehman: Sharing Stories at Kinlochard
We took a wrong turn in Aberfoyle. Instead of heading toward Loch Katrine, the home of Sir Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake, my wife Amy and I headed along a sketchy broken road to Loch Ard.
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Primo Levi on Translating and Being Translated
Genesis tells us that the first men had only one language: this made them so ambitious and powerful they began building a tower high into the sky.
Read MoreBefore and After Fossil Fuels
Every round-trip ticket on flights from New York to London, keep in mind, costs the Arctic three more square meters of ice.
Read MoreMost checkers games end in a draw…
At the highest levels, checkers is a game of mental attrition. Most games are draws. In serious matches, players don’t begin with the standard initial starting position.
Read MoreLife slips away in the reworking of one’s writings…
by Michael Wood But the desire of the essay is not to seek and filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal. —T. W. Adorno Current conversations about the essay—and there are many—emphasize the provisional, speculative nature of the genre, the suggestion of a...
Read MoreA compelling impression of untethered bodies floating across vast distances…
The same year that the US nominated its first female presidential candidate, the Met presented, an opera composed by a woman...
Read MoreThat Time the Way That It Is and Was
So far this makes it sound as if philosophers are a bunch of science fiction spoil sports. Not so! Although philosophers typically agree that we cannot change the past, most think it possible to causally affect the past.
Read MoreKeith Doubt at Bosnia’s March of Peace
Marš Mira is a commemorative march, like others elsewhere throughout the world, that retraces the long, treacherous route that survivors of the Srebrenica genocide followed to escape the Serbian army.
Read MoreSex became inextricable from Diane Arbus’s photography…
Arbus was clear about what she wanted and why. The trouble is there’s still such scant understanding, let alone appreciation, for what it means to be a woman and wired the way she was.
Read MoreMorning on the Wissahiccon
The natural scenery of America has often been contrasted, in its general features as well as in detail, with the landscape of the Old World
Read MoreColin Raff: Variations on a Brandenburg Salamander
In the spring of 1793, the entomologist Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, as a means to supplement his lectures at the newly founded Berliner Tierarzneischule
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What was heartening about the general election was that it suggested a new symbolic status for policy of the sort that technocratic politics was unable to manufacture.
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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