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Infidelities
So the London Review of Books comes in the mail and you turn immediately to the page that would be the inside back flap if the LRB were a book rather than a tabloid-shaped…
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Translated- Sally Ashton
It is impossible to translate; we are always translating: Alone at a café table set on uneasy cobble under some broad-leaved tree, I wait for my lunch and enjoy a breeze. At last. At…
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From King Gesar and the zany Basques to Complaint by Ravi Shankar
Let’s begin with oral poetry, which I ended the last blog post on, because I neglected to note that the cowboy poets have nothing on the Basques who sell tickets in the tens of…
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Happiness at Yale? by Leslie McGrath
Oh yes, yes my friends. There's happiness at Yale every summer — an entire course on happiness taught by Professor Lawrence Vogel, a professor of philosophy at Connecticut College. Larry's one of the best…
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Freud Quiz #28
y If you went “beyond the pleasure principle,” where would you be going, and with whom?(a) the Italian Renaissance with Vasari(b) the Spanish Inquisition with Loyola(c) the French Revolution with Saint-Just(d) the Trojan War…
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Sounds Like Lisbon – Sally Ashton
I wake up to the sound of clattering dishes coming through the open window of the room where I’m staying, the hostel’s kitchen crew getting ready for the morning rush of hungry travelers, some…
