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Cabbages ‘n’ Kings: Vigilantism, Urban ‘n’ Suburban; Weil, Woolf ‘n’ Derrida
Deconstructing Derrida: Who's the fairest of them all? 1. Thinking about Lena Dunham’s Girls, and the New York magazine drama derby, in which the best TV shows of the past 25 years battled for...
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Hitchens vs. Ethical Godlessness: Bloomsbury Is the Atheists’ Paradise
Apropos the Vanity Fair Hitchens memorial this week I am reposting this September 2010 piece, de-libellized, from my private blog. I. Hitchens and Atheism I am thinking about Hitchens and his...
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Straight Skinny Epitaph: Angelica Bell Garnett, 1918-2012
Angelica Garnett, by her father, Duncan Grant, 1940. http://images.mitrasites.com/icon/angelica-garnett.html Angelica Bell, by her mother, Vanessa Bell. Angelica Garnett, 2010....
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Torture the Women
1. Mad Men. I don’t know how widely spread the Tony Soprano trope now is, but Weiner, the writer and producer of Mad Men, and a writer on The Sopranos, has reproduced it trope for trope in Mad Men....
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Ripeness Is All
My friend’s apocalypse, in which [redacted], has real resonance for those of us who decided years ago, not to breed. One lesson of that is work, with more courage, vision and innovation. The second is,...
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