09/21/2021
Category: Ideas
Tales, trivia, and tidbits from now and then.
08/12/2021
Riffing the Prose
What Toni Morrison's Jazz did for jazz, and vice versa
by Colin Fleming
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08/02/2021
Oxy
Balancing the pain of life and death
by Rosalind Kaplan
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07/26/2021
The Radicalism of W.E.B. Du Bois
Over the course of his life, the polemicist of the NAACP evolved leftward
by Arvind Dilawar
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07/19/2021
Hooked on Cons
Cons, cults, and conspiracies
by Edwin Battistella
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06/14/2021
David Foster Wallace’s Problematic Tenses
Foster Wallace claimed James Baldwin’s support for ‘Standard White English’ — yet the latter dismissed it long before
by Arvind Dilawar
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06/10/2021
An Apology for Plagiarism
Nothing new under the sun
by Bill Gruber
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05/24/2021
Books and Bias
Rediscovering the writing and ideologies in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels
by Paula Marantz Cohen
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04/22/2021
The Campus Novel Trap
“Novelists often teach out of economic necessity,” but campus life can consequently circumscribe their work.
by Arvind Dilawar
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02/18/2021