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Rooted Cosmopolitan
In 2011, I reviewed what was then Adam Zagajewski’s recent collection, Unseen Hand. In it, the poet, then in his mid-sixties, turned toward themes of life and death, loss and...
Bodily Revulsions
The Meaning of Disgust by Colin McGinn Oxford, 264 pages, $35 n The eminent philosopher Colin McGinn has written twenty-five or so sharp, illuminating pages on the topic of...
The Tree of Life and Melancholia
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Generation iPod and the Ends of Occupy Wall Street
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The Virtues of Trilling
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The Heavy Eyelids of Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud set himself apart. For several decades, until his death this past July, the English painter stuck stubbornly to his program of stark, severe portraiture, ignoring the many...
Is Rick Perry a Higher-Education Visionary?
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The Verdict on Verdicts
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Patriotism, Little Platoons, and the “Real” America
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Elements From Opposing Minds
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Democracy Comes for the Journalists
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On the Banality of Abortion as Art
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