The Pause That Refreshes The Blog
Hey, it’s not every day that you get to use the word “persiflage” successfully. Give Robert Hughes a rubber cigar.
Mary Beard, classics scholar extraordinaire, gets invited to the Emmy’s. No kidding! Avid readers want to know: who did she wear?
“It is only about relationship and not about any identifiable relata:” Tim Parks on Gregory Bateson
And while we’re at it: Louis Menand on Lionel Trilling. “All push becomes pull someday…”
Kathleen Fitzpatrick remembers David Foster Wallace, in an appreciation whose quiet politeness makes it appreciate all the more kindly.
Meet Thomas Wright, who wanted to touch every book that Oscar Wilde ever touched.
Your ideas intrigue me, Bill Kovach. Could one devise an internet search algorithm to filter out propaganda?
I look forward to the day when I need no longer need use my own mind to distinguish truth from tantrum.
