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15,498karma·1,010submissions·January 26, 2015
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Traveling post from Tiflis.
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57 pts
Cooking with Fyodor Dostoyevsky(theparisreview.org)
8y ago·6 comments
83 pts
Passé présomptif: on Vercingetorix(the-tls.co.uk)
8y ago·41 comments
7 pts
The Life and Times of the Literary Agent Georges Borchardt(theparisreview.org)
8y ago·discuss
14 pts
Where Lost Bodies Roam: Beckett’s Political Imagination(nybooks.com)
8y ago·discuss
32 pts
The life and art of Heinrich Heine(commentarymagazine.com)
8y ago·4 comments
1 pts
The Literary Insights of Sylvia Plath’s College Thesis(theatlantic.com)
8y ago·discuss
41 pts
Blood Will Tell(features.propublica.org)
8y ago·4 comments
90 pts
How Britain’s First Mission to China Went Wrong(chinachannel.org)
8y ago·44 comments
5 pts
Theatrical karaoke: on Dickens(the-tls.co.uk)
8y ago·discuss
19 pts
Coming in from the Cold: On Spy Fiction(nplusonemag.com)
8y ago·discuss
1 pts
A Silver Thread: Islam in Eastern Europe(lareviewofbooks.org)
8y ago·discuss
12 pts
David Russell on the Victorian Essay(fivebooks.com)
8y ago·discuss
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Who better? Unless, that is, there is an HN user named Oblomov ;)
8y ago·view thread
111 pts
“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot(newcriterion.com)
8y ago·58 comments
119 pts
Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless(thepointmag.com)
8y ago·27 comments
11 pts
Nabokov’s Dreams(lrb.co.uk)
8y ago·1 comments
35 pts
What Happened to the Book Herman Melville Wrote After ‘Moby-Dick’?(thedailybeast.com)
8y ago·16 comments
63 pts
A Brilliant 1895 Novel on the Emptiness of Literary Fame(newyorker.com)
8y ago·9 comments
53 pts
Clarify Me, Please, God of the Galaxies(firstthings.com)
8y ago·5 comments
19 pts
Associations of Thought: On Jane Austen(hudsonreview.com)
8y ago·1 comments
44 pts
A Short History of the Executioner (2014)(theappendix.net)
8y ago·9 comments
18 pts
Mata Hari with a Clockwork Eye, Alligators in the Sewer (1963) [pdf](graphics8.nytimes.com)
8y ago·8 comments
91 pts
The Imaginative Reality of Ursula K. Le Guin(vqronline.org)
8y ago·24 comments
68 pts
Floating in the Air: The World That Made Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment(thenation.com)
8y ago·24 comments
6 pts
Reader Discretion Advised: On profanity and the sublime in poetry(poetryfoundation.org)
8y ago·3 comments
11 pts
On collecting memories: An interview with writer and essayist Adam Gopnik(thecreativeindependent.com)
8y ago·discuss
146 pts
Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the mysteries she created(theintelligencer.com)
8y ago·60 comments
2 pts
What Did Napoleon Like to Eat and Drink? (2015)(militaryhistorynow.com)
8y ago·discuss
2 pts
Literature Shrugged: Worse than hatred of literature is indifference(thebaffler.com)
8y ago·discuss