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15,500karma·1,010submissions·January 26, 2015
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Traveling post from Tiflis.
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11 pts
On Brian J. Boeck’s Biography of Mikhail Sholokhov, “Stalin’s Scribe”(lareviewofbooks.org)
7y ago·discuss
20 pts
The celebrity poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon mesmerized a 19th-century public(theatlantic.com)
7y ago·discuss
2 pts
The Banality of Empathy(nybooks.com)
7y ago·discuss
1 pts
Who Was the “Female Byron”?(theparisreview.org)
7y ago·discuss
17 pts
Browning Fever: A story of fandom, literary societies, and impenetrable verse(laphamsquarterly.org)
7y ago·2 comments
27 pts
Stalin’s Scheherazade: An opportunistic literary caper became a lifelong con(longreads.com)
7y ago·2 comments
2 pts
In St. Petersburg, a stalwart of the 1917 revolution lives on (2017)(latimes.com)
7y ago·discuss
67 pts
Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip (2018)(openculture.com)
7y ago·16 comments
37 pts
Josiah Royce: The philosopher we need today?(nytimes.com)
7y ago·7 comments
243 pts
What People Say Before They Die(theatlantic.com)
7y ago·120 comments
86 pts
Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race (2018)(hyperallergic.com)
7y ago·76 comments
17 pts
Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit(lithub.com)
7y ago·6 comments
21 pts
Kafka’s Last Trial(theguardian.com)
7y ago·9 comments
39 pts
Did Salinger Go Awry?(tabletmag.com)
7y ago·53 comments
2 pts
The Surprising Story of 'Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an' (2013)(npr.org)
7y ago·discuss
64 pts
The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu (1007-1010)(digital.library.upenn.edu)
7y ago·6 comments
73 pts
Counting the Components of My Consciousness(auxiliarymemory.com)
7y ago·31 comments
3 pts
Gift of General Dodds (2015)(cabinetmagazine.org)
7y ago·discuss
13 pts
Just Oscar: Defining the Oscar Wilde we want to see(the-tls.co.uk)
7y ago·discuss
8 pts
The Great Nadar: The Man behind the Camera(lrb.co.uk)
7y ago·discuss
73 pts
Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines and Dope Fiends: On Synanon (2013)(cabinetmagazine.org)
7y ago·27 comments
141 pts
Why We Need Difficult Books(theguardian.com)
7y ago·96 comments
103 pts
An 1861 illustrated Japanese book on the American revolutionary war(reddit.com)
7y ago·23 comments
86 pts
Sights and sounds of the final hours of World War I(laphamsquarterly.org)
7y ago·39 comments
66 pts
How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment(historytoday.com)
7y ago·55 comments
34 pts
The Draw of the Gothic(theparisreview.org)
7y ago·discuss
34 pts
Berlin, 1918–1919: Käthe Kollwitz, Witness to History(nybooks.com)
7y ago·12 comments
13 pts
Tank Kee’s Library: The adventures of a Chinese imperial encyclopedia(laphamsquarterly.org)
7y ago·1 comments
65 pts
Gandhi for the Post-Truth Age(newyorker.com)
7y ago·46 comments
56 pts
High Crime in the Cocaine Industry(meanjin.com.au)
7y ago·65 comments