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10/22/2007

Will You Please Stop Editing, Please?

Raymond Carver didn't get his literary triumph quite the way he—and lots of others—wanted it. We have to accept that fact even if it hurts a little.

by deeleichhardt7

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10/18/2007

The Prince

How Borscht Belt jokes cut the distance between Utica and New York.

by deeleichhardt7

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10/11/2007

Fear, Trembling, and a Shrug

We are talking, here, about the possibility of opening up an entirely new era in the history of human kind.

by deeleichhardt7

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10/03/2007

Malato Immaginario

Why J.M. Coetzee and James Wood are both right and both wrong.

by deeleichhardt7

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09/27/2007

Rembrandt Is Eyes

In his faces, the Dutch painter's humanism comes through.

by deeleichhardt7

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09/19/2007

The Meaning and Meanness of Mencken

Who else was going to show us in our dumbness?

by deeleichhardt7

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09/12/2007

Damien Hirst’s Memento Mori

Another reminder that Warhol's legacy is alive and well.

by deeleichhardt7

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09/04/2007

The Trouble With Farmers

Where do they get off being so self-righteous?

by deeleichhardt7

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08/21/2007

Fragments From Budapest

by deeleichhardt7

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08/06/2007

Emotional Animals

by deeleichhardt7

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