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Why Every Progressive Should Read <em>The Good Soldier Švejk</em>

Why Every Progressive Should Read The Good Soldier Švejk

Paul Goldberg on How to Stay Sane in a World Besieged by Idiocy

By Paul Goldberg | March 9, 2018

Curtis White: There's No Such Thing as Postmodernism

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Ismail Kadare on the Greatest of the Greeks

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Hannah Arendt on the Time She Met W.H. Auden

Happy Birthday to the poet who thought “poetry makes nothing happen”

By Hannah Arendt | February 21, 2018

Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski's Life's Work

Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski's Life's Work

An Antidote to the Traumatic Experiences of a Wartime Childhood

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How Do You Write One of Humanity's Most Intimate Moments?

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