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A Toast to Lionel Trilling on his Birthday (July 4, 1905)
Arnold, Goethe, and Homer You ask what I like about Trilling’s writing and I pull out the Viking Portable Arnold and turn to page twenty-five of his introduction: “He [Arnold] could join Goethe…
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Yankee Doodle, do or die!
Happy birthday to us from Jasper Johns
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Les Arts Florissants: dealing with the artefact in opera as performance
Ariodante, Léa Desandre, mezzo-soprano, with Les Arts Florissants’ founder and conductor William Christie. Photo ©Amazing Digital Studios. Frédéric Savoir’s cinematic Ariodante, performed by the baroque performance group Les Arts Florissants – along with recent…
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Independence! Gimme some skin!
Sinatra and Steve McQueen agree to toast Independence. Moonshine becomes you! Keep it going, fellows!
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Name this writer, who was born today, July 3
If you make you identification in the form of a double dactyl, or a limerick, or a trial-and-error triolet, or an homage to Ovid's Metamorphoses, please have a go, and we'll announce the winners…
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“The Dybbuk” [by Boris Dralyuk]
from THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS May 29, 2025 issue for Delmore Schwartz From the parched courtyards of our past they grope toward us in the night,the desperate shades of schnooks, outcast before their debts…
