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15,493karma·1,010submissions·January 26, 2015
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Traveling post from Tiflis.
recent activity (1,010 total)
13 pts
Poetic License(archaeology.org)
4y ago·discuss
2 pts
The Curious Case of Colonial India’s Breakfast Curries(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·discuss
16 pts
Out of Sir Vidia’s Shadow(lrb.co.uk)
4y ago·4 comments
23 pts
Has Literature Ever Changed the Course of History?(historytoday.com)
4y ago·49 comments
28 pts
My Year of Reading Lemmishly(lrb.co.uk)
4y ago·discuss
47 pts
An unlikely meditation on modern happiness(hedgehogreview.com)
4y ago·59 comments
10 pts
How Elizabeth Taylor Remade the Novel of Old Age(newyorker.com)
4y ago·1 comments
56 pts
In southern France, unique boats revive a lost way of life(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·21 comments
65 pts
The first fairy stories were never intended for children(spectator.co.uk)
4y ago·57 comments
59 pts
Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·11 comments
8 pts
A Venetian Poltroon(lrb.co.uk)
4y ago·5 comments
9 pts
Modernism’s Forgotten Mystic(newyorker.com)
4y ago·3 comments
79 pts
What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s(spectator.co.uk)
4y ago·118 comments
10 pts
The Appeal of Artists Who Won Fame After Death(wsj.com)
4y ago·6 comments
25 pts
The Power of Testimony: Why personal narrative has displaced fiction(yalereview.org)
4y ago·6 comments
36 pts
A Spouse Divided: Two new Dostoevsky biographies(bookforum.com)
4y ago·2 comments
11 pts
Old, Weird Tech: The Bat Bombs of World War II (2011)(theatlantic.com)
4y ago·3 comments
2 pts
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece is finally appearing(spectatorworld.com)
4y ago·discuss
48 pts
Albrecht Dürer: Self-publicist, tourist, entrepreneur, Renaissance artist(spectator.co.uk)
4y ago·4 comments
18 pts
Imaging Inscape: The Human Soul (1913)(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·discuss
15 pts
Desperately Seeking Sebald(harpers.org)
4y ago·discuss
55 pts
The Gambler Wife: new books about Dostoevsky(the-tls.co.uk)
4y ago·5 comments
9 pts
‘The Young H.G. Wells’ Review: The Original Futurist(wsj.com)
4y ago·5 comments
111 pts
Not Belonging to the World: Hannah Arendt Holds Firm(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·36 comments
9 pts
John Uri Lloyd’s “Etidorhpa” (1895)(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·4 comments
70 pts
The Kingpin of Shanghai(damninteresting.com)
4y ago·50 comments
18 pts
The Myth of Oscar Wilde’s Martyrdom(newyorker.com)
4y ago·discuss
16 pts
The Open Society and Its Prophets(tabletmag.com)
4y ago·5 comments
7 pts
A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman(newyorker.com)
4y ago·discuss