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Vladimir Horowitz was a Genius [by David Lehman]
Listen to his Carmen Variationsspectacularplayed spectacularly by Yuja Wangborn on this very day!(and a tip of the fedorato M. Bizet, author ofthe greatest opera)
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In Appreciation of James Tate [by David Lehman]
I became a convert to James Tate’s poetry when he published Constant Defender and Reckoner in 1983 and ’86 respectively. I was asked to review his work for the Washington Post Book World, and this in part is what…
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THE NEW ECONOMY [by Andrei Codrescu]
Every day I produce a minimum of five lucrative ideas. Unfortunately, I lack an entourage of five people needed to make them successful, namely, 1. a scribe, 2. a translator, 3. a designer, 4.…
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“Rich in language, dark in texture, and filled with insight” John Lane’s “Anthropocene Blues” [review by Brent Martin]
It likely got by you in 2016 when a working group for the International Commission on Stratigraphy recommended that the commission vote to accept that we are now in a new geological epoch known…
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The Freight Charges of the 20th century: Teller and Reifensthal by [Andrei Codrescu]
Two evil geniuses of the 20th century died nearly at the same time, after surviving the century that they helped shape: Edward Teller and Leni Riefenstahl [pictured left]. Edward Teller, the father of the…
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“Dutch Interior”: Where Two Davids (Hockney, Lehman) Meet [thanks to Trina Enriquez]
David Hockney at the Tate Gallery in London,David Lehman composing "Dutch Interior" in a winter twilight in Ithaca,and Trinachka (i.e. Trina Enriquez) puts them together.here
