PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (13)
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Jim Hanas on: The Fall, The Possessed, Upper Middle
11th
Sep
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Hilobrow Comics
R. Sikoryak is a versatile, witty, and well-read cartoonist and illustrator who’s retold Dante’s Inferno in the style of Bazooka Joe bubblegum comics, Crime...
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11th
Sep
Sep
T.W. Adorno
Even though there's no shepherd issuing orders, we behave like docile sheep.
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10th
Sep
Sep
Partisan Middlebrow
High-, low-, no-, and hilobrow members of the Partisan Generation include: Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Clement Greenberg (whose 1939 Partisan Review essay, “Avant-Garde and...
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10th
Sep
Sep
THE BOOK: TERMS OF SERVICE
THE BOOK Terms of Service Statement of Rights and Responsibilities This statement of the terms of service of The Book is derived from principles...
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09th
Sep
Sep
High-Mid shenanigans
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Thomas Frank wittily and intelligently notes that high-middlebrow pundits have whipped their ground troops up into a backlash against...
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09th
Sep
Sep
Monkey Science Roundup
Monkeys are making news across the world of science. As we discussed last week, researchers discovered that tamarin monkeys prefer music composed for them....
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09th
Sep
Sep
Partisans: 1904-13
"My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."
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