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A Writer Who Is Good for You
After the Great War shell-shocked veterans were advised to read Jane Austen, "perhaps to restore their faith in a world that had been blown apart," the author writes, "while at the same time respecting their sense of the world's fragility"
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De Sade's Daughters
In the new erotic writing by women, sex is a cruel, even murderous business, and men, for the most part, are brutes.
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All Politics is Cosmic
The politics of meaning
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Bettmann / Getty 'To Work is to Live Without Dying'
Rilke was one of the most gifted and conscientious artists who ever lived. And beyond all that, he was fascinating.
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How to Raise a Good Liberal
A book of virtues for the right-thinking left
