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A Classical Insurgency
Why learn Latin? And by what means? Many professional classicists have no convincing answer to either question. According to stereotype, classicists often don’t know how to talk to normal...
Sex, Lies, and Suicide
Mollyby blake butlerarchway editions, 328 pages, $17.95 It seems heartless to discuss Blake Butler’s memoir Molly as a work of art. The story it tells involves deep trauma and grief, not...
How to Kill a Literary Genre
The Novelist:A Novelby jordan castrornsoft skull, 208 pages, $24 Jordan Castro’s The Novelist: A Novel describes a morning during which an unnamed writer struggles to resume work on an...
