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Deserted Beaches, Lost Souls: On the Beautiful Emptiness at the Heart of <em>White Lotus</em>

Deserted Beaches, Lost Souls: On the Beautiful Emptiness at the Heart of White Lotus

David Barnes Considers the Literary Tourism of the Lotus-Eaters

By David Barnes | March 17, 2025

What Hemingway Means in the 21st Century

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By David Barnes | April 17, 2023

How T.S. Eliot’s Therapeutic Practice Produced <em>The Waste Land</em>

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David Barnes on a Poet, His Doctor, and the Making of a Literary Masterpiece

By David Barnes | October 24, 2022

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