Sunday reading to sate my Anglophilia. A true, hilarious classic. Kingsley was the superior Amis. Forget Stoner—this is the best campus novel ever written
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Edward Canfield
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Edward Canfield
@EdwardCanfield_
literary propagandist | words in @ModAgeJournal
Katılım Nisan 2026
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This track by John Elliott (1/3 of Emeralds) is golden. But the video attending it is why the internet exists. Much respect to whoever put this one together 16 years ago. A perennial favorite
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It’s uncanny to yet again take up an old project—at once foreign and familiar, and lately unclad of youth’s armor and strength, perhaps now is the time to seize it after all
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In my dreams, a dozen ambitious translators are busy pitching this project to prospective English-language publishers. Then I awake to the nightmare that its English publication will never happen residenzverlag.com/en/buch/thomas…
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The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said it has agreed to merge with the Neue Galerie, cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder’s esteemed museum for German and Austrian modern art housed in an ornate beaux-arts building across Fifth Avenue. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3RFAELb
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“Colossus earns credit for measuring itself—as too many contemporary novels seem afraid to do—against the weightiest themes. Yet ambition does not in itself guarantee success.” A bracing, worthwhile review of Barkan’s novel, which doesn’t ignore its many faults
Paul Franz@plfrnz
For @NRO I reviewed ambitious new novels by @RossBarkan and Lee Clay Johnson from @skyhorsepub and @PanamericaBooks. nationalreview.com/magazine/2026/…
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@lionel_trolling Francis Bacon described his painting process as a series of accidents. Something to it, perhaps
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This review, which stares into Lerner’s novel to the point of achieving a kind of critical pareidolia, was a better read than Transcription itself
Leo Robson@leorobsonwriter
a smash hit from the most searching and rigorous reviewer of new fiction on these shores @lola_seaton over at @NewLeftReview SIDECAR on the novel people have been reading + thinking and politely arguing about: Ben Lerner's Transcription newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
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@herandrews This is very true. I can’t help but think of the correspondence between Gustave Flaubert and George Sand.
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Women, especially, shine in the medium of letters, whether as writers or recipients.
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Haven’t seen any reviews yet of this biography of Richard Pipes, published last month by Stanford University Press.
Andrzej Kozlowski@akoz33
Finally arrived! @DanielPipes
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“But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.” -Samuel Beckett
Timur Kuran@timurkuran
The humanities were meant to illuminate the human condition and to participate in teaching how to think. They were popular when they delivered. Once they pivoted to social-justice activism, they became useless. Their existential crisis is entirely self-inflicted.
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I see it every day. It’s just as bad on this side of the pond—English departments rife with rot
Toby Young@toadmeister
As the University of Hertfordshire announces the mass closure of its humanities departments, Chris Milton says the replacement of scholarship with activism is destroying Britain's universities. dailysceptic.org/2026/05/13/bri…
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I can’t help but have a soft spot for Denis Diderot, who counts among France’s greatest-ever talkers. Rameau’s Nephew is very good
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From a 1990 essay-review by Robert Craft in the NYRB. Had this prediction come true, the humanities departments in our universities would be far less ruined
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Finally accepted that the amount of time I used to spend reading Jung and his first- and second-order disciples is embarrassing
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Rüdiger Safranski on Dionysus, from the book Arthur Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy (cf. Carl Kerényi’s excellent Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life)
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You mean to tell me that Houellebecq’s narrators tend to actively disagree with Jung? On individuation as illusion, from the novel Platform:
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Proust, “On Reading”
Goodreads@goodreads
Do you have an early memory of when you fell in love with reading?
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European supremacist jester Zizek for Vogue
La Mode Unknown@LaModeUnknown
Modern philosopher ✨️Slavoj Žižek✨️ on the cover of Vogue Adria, in the lens of (obviously) Juergen Teller.🪡
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