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Lionel Trilling on Matthew Arnold (and on Mark Twain in Vienna in 1897)
The Secret 1. Of Matthew Arnold’s habitof meditating on the sayingsof great thinkers, a different oneeach week, after writing themdown in his pocket diary,Lionel Trilling wrote,“It was as if he were obeyingas literally as…
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NEMO Paris: what’s up with digital art? [By Tracy Danison]
“Play with the Earth”. NeoConsortium's “ExoForm”, the first sidereal art project, will eventually cover the whole world in breathtaking pink glass. In the end, spokespeople enthuse, all humanity will get to see this weary old…
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“Self-reliance” by Sarah Rice [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Sarah Rice is a Canberra based poet and visual artist who holds a PhD in Philosophy and has lectured in art-theory at the Australian National University's school of art. In 2011, she co-won the…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: October 4, 2023
Erin Marie Lynch’s debut poetry collection Removal Acts is nothing short of astonishing. A descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Lynch’s title refers to the 1963 Federal Act that banished Dakota people from…
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Wild Afternoons (15 years on] [by Angela Patrinos]
Yesterday afternoon David Lehman presented “Wild Nights! The Poetry of Eros” in the New School’s Lang Auditorium. The event was the first of the “Fridays at One” series hosted by the IRP, the Institute…
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Tom Disch’s “Letters to Dead Editors”
On July 1, 2008, at 11:16AM, Tom Disch revealed God's "other" Big Idea of the day. He called it "Letters to Dead Editors." <<<Another were-there-but-world-enough theme anthology. It was to have been a whole…
