07/26/2021
Category: Ideas
Tales, trivia, and tidbits from now and then.
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
Bierce’s Devilish Words
Ambrose Bierce's less than safe spaces
by Colin Fleming
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02/04/2021
Gnosticism and the Smoking Gun
What else are we wrong about and other questions we ask while tying our shoes
by David Frost
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01/07/2021
The Time to Worry about Chinatown
The neighborhood survived racism, gentrification, and even a city-leveling earthquake, but might be done in by COVID-19
by Arvind Dilawar
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12/07/2020