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1.
The Origins of Yiddish (2014)
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tabletmag.com
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71 points
by
drjohnson
on June 28, 2024
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107 comments
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Ossian, the ‘Homer of the North’, the greatest literary hoax (2016)
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independent.co.uk
)
53 points
by
drjohnson
on Jan 25, 2024
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27 comments
3.
Chateaubriand, the Romantic Classicist
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antigonejournal.com
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27 points
by
drjohnson
on Dec 8, 2023
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7 comments
4.
'The Waste Land' Reviewed (1923)
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theguardian.com
)
35 points
by
drjohnson
on Oct 21, 2022
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12 comments
5.
The Lost Library of John Milton
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cam.ac.uk
)
15 points
by
drjohnson
on Sept 13, 2022
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6.
On Invisibility
(
threepennyreview.com
)
14 points
by
drjohnson
on Sept 6, 2022
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3 comments
7.
Who owns Parliament?
(
whoownsengland.org
)
137 points
by
drjohnson
on May 31, 2022
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198 comments
8.
Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
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nytimes.com
)
142 points
by
drjohnson
on May 24, 2022
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90 comments
9.
The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky
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newyorker.com
)
118 points
by
drjohnson
on Jan 3, 2022
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79 comments
10.
“Don Quixote” as a manual for living
(
octavian.substack.com
)
71 points
by
drjohnson
on Sept 13, 2021
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79 comments
11.
Fit for a Queen
(
laphamsquarterly.org
)
19 points
by
drjohnson
on April 29, 2021
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7 comments
12.
Fakery and the Russian Avant-Garde
(
apollo-magazine.com
)
10 points
by
drjohnson
on Jan 20, 2021
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2 comments
13.
Rebecca West: opinionated, impertinent, impossible (2000)
(
theglobeandmail.com
)
6 points
by
drjohnson
on Nov 21, 2020
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14.
Impossible Word: Toward a Poetics of Aphasia
(
poetryfoundation.org
)
27 points
by
drjohnson
on Oct 12, 2020
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1 comment
15.
Flight of the Fire Ants
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edgelands.substack.com
)
38 points
by
drjohnson
on July 7, 2020
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7 comments
16.
On Pandemic and Literature
(
themillions.com
)
20 points
by
drjohnson
on March 16, 2020
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4 comments
17.
Commonplace books and the illusions of memory
(
laphamsquarterly.org
)
14 points
by
drjohnson
on Dec 10, 2019
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18.
Crusoe at the Crossroads
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thenewatlantis.com
)
5 points
by
drjohnson
on Nov 12, 2019
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2 comments
19.
Consider the Hedgehog
(
lrb.co.uk
)
25 points
by
drjohnson
on Oct 25, 2019
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6 comments
20.
The Ebbing Language
(
poetryfoundation.org
)
31 points
by
drjohnson
on Sept 26, 2019
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3 comments
21.
Literature and Economics
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lareviewofbooks.org
)
7 points
by
drjohnson
on Aug 28, 2019
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22.
Semantic Drift
(
harpers.org
)
59 points
by
drjohnson
on July 19, 2019
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59 comments
23.
The Location of Plates in a Book
(
folger.edu
)
37 points
by
drjohnson
on June 12, 2019
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2 comments
24.
Big Talkers
(
nybooks.com
)
11 points
by
drjohnson
on May 13, 2019
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2 comments
25.
Harper Lee's Lost True Crime Book
(
theguardian.com
)
29 points
by
drjohnson
on May 9, 2019
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8 comments
26.
[flagged]
What Does the Word “Liberal” Mean?
(
lawliberty.org
)
18 points
by
drjohnson
on April 22, 2019
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28 comments
27.
How Robert Louis Stevenson came to live, die, and be buried in Samoa (2018)
(
weeklystandard.com
)
46 points
by
drjohnson
on March 18, 2019
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17 comments
28.
Theophrastus’ Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior
(
city-journal.org
)
13 points
by
drjohnson
on Feb 7, 2019
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1 comment
29.
The contested world of literary estates
(
newstatesman.com
)
11 points
by
drjohnson
on Jan 6, 2019
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2 comments
30.
T.S. Eliot, Populist
(
firstthings.com
)
41 points
by
drjohnson
on Nov 12, 2018
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37 comments
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