Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Freud by Elisabeth Roudinesco

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The adjective “anti-Semitic” had appeared for the first time in Germany in 1860, used by an eminent Orientalist Jew from Bohemia to cha...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Answering the Mail by Daniel Boyarin

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Throughout this book I have been arguing that Paul’s writing poses a significant challenge to the Jewish notion of identity. I have s...
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Monday, December 19, 2016

Doctor Melchior by J. Maynard Keynes

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In October 1919, after I had returned to Cambridge, some Dutch financiers invited me to visit Amsterdam to discuss the situation with...
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Saturday, December 17, 2016

End of a Beautiful Friendship by Alex Beam

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How did we travel from “Dear Bunny” (Edmund Wilson) and “Dear Volodya” (Vladimir Nabokov) to Please Lose My Address and By the Way I’...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Ranciere on Populism

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By  Huw Lemmey  / 30 January 2013 Writing in  Libération ,  Jacques Rancière talks about populism and French politics today. The P...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Translator's Note by Valerie Miles

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Edmundo had begun outlining the novel when we met during our respective sojourns in Madrid; I was the associate director of Alfaguara...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Platformitis by Edward Luttwak

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The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of Darpa, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency  by  Annie Jacobsen Little, Brown, ...