Nic Rowan
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Nic Rowan
@NicXTempore
Managing Editor, @thelampmagazine. “I am losing some illusions, perhaps to acquire others.”
Katılım Haziran 2015
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Some professional news! I am now the International Editor of @TheFP
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Out from the paywall from the new issue: Nic Rowan on the weaponization of "everything from the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court to the White House Easter Egg Roll."
hedgehogreview.com/issues/humanis…
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The most fun I have had as a headline writer is putting that song's title to a (very sympathetic) reported essay about fat positivity.
hypniac@hypniac
im convinced nothing in music will ever be as beautiful as the riff at the end of some girls are bigger than others
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The Decline of the American Mall: Can you still find meaning between a Radio Shack and a Victoria’s Secret? | @NicXTempore
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now that khamenei is off the table, i wonder which times obituary has been in the system the longest
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sometimes a piece is so good you know it justifies the entire year’s subscription because you felt so blessed by it.
this is how I feel about this short essay in the @thelampmagazine
I enjoyed it so much I just read it aloud to Tim given I read it on the plane the first time
Kristin M. Collier, MD@HSRdirector
Griffiths on “natural death” “Death is as natural to us as circularity is to squares. It makes a rent in that fabric which is tightly woven, grave, sad and beautiful. The more easily “from conception to natural death” rolls from our tongues the more tattered the fabric becomes”
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Have never reached a settled opinion on Bloomsbury. Only one actual A grade genius (Keynes). Woolf close but valued for all the wrong things. Clive Bell and Roger Fry are more unreadable than Thomas Carlyle. Cult around the holy sites (Charleston!) and paintings is off-putting and misguided. Their morality is somewhat admirable. Paul Johnson basically blames them for everything that went wrong in the entire 20th century: seems a bit much. Lytton Strachey as good an essayist as Britain has produced. Enormous blind spots on race and class waved away. But would rather bask in Woolf’s diaries than read dull contemporaries like Orwell. Always think about the fact that when Hermione Lee was asked if she had fantasies of meeting Virginia Woolf she said she would have been too afraid to have tea with her.
Tanjil Rashid@tanjil_rashid_
Indian novelist and art critic Mulk Raj Anand - TS Eliot's assistant at the Criterion - offers the most withering critique of Woolf of all. Overlooked by literary scholars, his account of being bullied in Woolf's drawing-room can be found in Conversations in Bloomsbury (1981).
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@NicXTempore Used to go there every Saturday after volunteering. RIP
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This piece was more or less a sequel to an earlier travelogue, on war fatigue, in both Europe and Ukraine, four years in. @amconmag theamericanconservative.com/ukraines-fadin…
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"Will they eventually find one of Aristotle’s vanished works?"
My latest: Raiders of the Lost Texts wsj.com/opinion/free-e… via @WSJFreeEx
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