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Culture
English has become less and less coherent as a discipline and, worse, has come near exhaustion as a scholarly pursuit.
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Culture
As for the image of a neoconservative as a liberal “mugged by reality”: Once people got over their affected fuss about the possible innuendo in
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Culture
Letterman is often best when, dying badly on stage, he turns his parched sarcasm back on himself. This was deadpan candor and ace crisis management.
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Culture
That is why Johnson is important: he is the patron saint of literary faith. And our love of him can only increase when we see,
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Culture
The memoir genre has taken plenty of hits from moralists, fact checkers and freelance scolds in the 13 years since “Angela’s Ashes” sold four million
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Culture
Gossip is how we establish cultural norms. Talking about others is our way to test the social boundaries — to learn what raises eyebrows, what
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Culture
It is particularly ironic that the critics have hurled all the conventional accusations at Miller, since his version of evolutionary psychology is so different from
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Culture
It’s not that Vollmann ultimately fails to get his point across. A reader can’t spend that much time with him without absorbing the bigger picture
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