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How to hop trains. A comprehensive guide exists, but you have to look for it in the right places
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How to hop trains. A comprehensive guide exists, but you have to...
Used in hats, boas, and funerary art, dyed ostrich feathers were a 19th century phenomenon
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Used in hats, boas, and funerary art, dyed ostrich feathers were a...
“I believe in Spinoza’s God,” Einstein said in 1929. What exactly he meant by that has been debated ever since
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“I believe in Spinoza’s God,” Einstein said in 1929. What exactly he...
“How can we renew the potential of the university to serve as a space that shelters criticism and literary judgment and aesthetic education?”
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“How can we renew the potential of the university to serve as...
At the center of the midcentury literati were the Paget Sisters, identical twins who were courted by Camus and Sartre
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At the center of the midcentury literati were the Paget Sisters, identical...
Stendhal syndrome: Every year, dozens of tourists are rushed to Florence’s hospitals, physically overcome by paintings, sculptures, and frescoes
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Stendhal syndrome: Every year, dozens of tourists are rushed to Florence’s hospitals...
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate”
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees...
Radiance, tremulous, nefarious: What’s the most beautiful word in the English language? Ask a linguist
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Radiance, tremulous, nefarious: What’s the most beautiful word in the English language...
In 1691, the Athenian Mercury started soliciting questions from readers. Was this the birth of the modern advice columnist?
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In 1691, the Athenian Mercury started soliciting questions from readers. Was this...
What Gutenberg wrought. It seems unfair to pin the horrors and glories of modernity on one man, though it won’t stop us from trying
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Destroy While ReadingLooking at the triumphs and turpitude of the modern world...
Renata Adler: “When I went to The New York Times to become the movie reviewer,” Hannah Arendt said, “When are you going to get serious?”
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Joshua CohenWhen Granta asked Renata Adler about contributing to this issue, she...
The Lord of the Rings is obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why do so many leftists love it?
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Tolkien Against the Grain The Lord of the Rings is a book...