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Book Review: “Fabrications” — A Collection of the Lies We Tell

February 10, 2021
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Few writers can generate as much tension in so few pages as Pamela Painter.

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Book Interview: Christopher Ricks on “The Poems of T.S. Eliot, The Annotated Text.”

May 18, 2016
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Editors Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue are not trying to teach us how to read the poems.

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Book Review: “Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” — Rewriting the History of Ideas

August 3, 2013
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“Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform the way we look at the past and the present.

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Poetry Review: Lapidary Ends — “Cut These Words Into My Stone”

April 12, 2013
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This anthology, made up of Michael Wolfe’s superb translations of ancient Greek epitaphs, begins in prehistory and ends in the sixth century C.E.

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