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The Wound and the Bow
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The Wound and the Bow
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Friday, June 26, 2015
The Wound and the Bow
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Edmund Wilson Sometimes you have a wound that never heals. That was the story of the Greek warrior Philoctetes who was exiled to the ...
Friday, December 19, 2014
Burmese Days
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In a recent article, “Back to a Burmese Prison By Choice” (NYT, 12/6/14 U Htein Lin, the Burmese artist and dissident is...
Friday, September 26, 2014
The Fame Lunches
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There is an obligatory and routine sanctimony to op-ed columns mourning the loss of the celebrity who didn’t make it. Th...
Friday, October 11, 2013
Art Versus Life for the Heavyweight Title of the World
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In an essay entitled “Examined Lives,” ( The American Scholar, Autumn 2013) the prominent biographer Phyllis Rose makes th...
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