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The blog of Arts & Letters daily describes about the different topics on Philosophy, literature, ideas, criticism, history, art, music from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Leisure as letters. Reading and writing should be fundamentally playful — if deliberate — acts ..read more
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The benefits of a bad memory. To remember the important things, we have to forget anything inessential ..read more
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Judith Butler: “Is there a proposed criterion by which ‘extremist’ gender ideology can be distinguished from the non-extremist kind ..read more
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The rock biopic has a new job in the age of the financialization of music: produce, and reproduce, an audience ..read more
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Was Curzio Malaparte --— nationalist and cosmopolite, pacifist and bellicist, elitist and populist --— the quintessential European of his time ..read more
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We seek rest, yet are wary of its implicit boredom. This dilemma is resolved, perhaps, only by cats ..read more
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The homogenous, aging American psychoanalytic community has begun emphasizing social injustice. The result: chaos ..read more
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“A book was like fresh air," said Adam Michnik. "They allowed us to survive and not go mad.” The CIA was deft at smuggling them behind the iron curtain ..read more
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Could the oldest writing system in the world be deciphered? Cuneiform persistently stumped scholars — until the 1850s ..read more
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“The nonagenarian writer should speak only of gratitude — and then shut up.” But not yet, if you’re Cynthia Ozick ..read more