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  1. Robert Musil: from the Diaries December 18, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

    No comments
  2. Kinbote Triumphant in Hell: The Riddle of Nabokov’s Ada November 22, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    6 comments
  3. R.P. Blackmur on James Joyce November 19, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

    1 comment
  4. Xorandor by Christine Brooke-Rose November 12, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    3 comments
  5. Burton Pike on Robert Musil: To Analyze and Order Experience Without Reducing It November 4, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    8 comments
  6. The Accident by Mihail Sebastian September 16, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    1 comment
  7. Chateau d’Argol by Julien Gracq July 16, 2011

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania.

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  8. Thersites, the Iliad, and Not Knowing Your Place July 15, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

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  9. King Lear, Nihilism, and Mostly Inevitable Hope July 3, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

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  10. The Guinea Pigs, Ludvik Vaculik June 29, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    4 comments
  11. Wilbur Sanders on Literary Criticism June 27, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

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  12. My Life in Books, The First Thirty Years June 7, 2011

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania.

    18 comments
  13. Barbara Comyns and Vladimir Sorokin June 6, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    1 comment
  14. Mark Twain’s Cynicism and That Last Part of Huck Finn May 12, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    2 comments
  15. The Linear and the Circular in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake May 9, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    2 comments
  16. Denis Diderot’s Pensées Philosophiques May 4, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

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  17. RIP Joanna Russ April 30, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

    2 comments
  18. Hugh Kenner on Louis Zukofsky, Canadian Proofreading, the MLA, the OED, and Everything Else April 24, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

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  19. Portrait of Denis Diderot April 20, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

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  20. The Stasis of Spaces in Kafka’s Trial April 19, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    2 comments
  21. The Deflation of Romanticism in Alexander Kuprin’s The Duel April 15, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

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  22. Finnegans Wake: A Short Guide to Readable Books about James Joyce’s Unreadable Book April 9, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    3 comments
  23. Many Meanings Can Have One Word: Sigurd Burckhardt March 22, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

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  24. The Pushcart War – Jean Merrill March 18, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    1 comment
  25. Pile of Shit Reviews Profound Philosophical Rhapsody: Lars Iyer’s Spurious March 5, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

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  26. Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Chaos March 4, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

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  27. Elaine Showalter and Erika Schickel on James Ellroy February 26, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

    1 comment
  28. F.R. Leavis Remembers Wittgenstein February 15, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    3 comments
  29. Osamu Dazai and Masuji Ibuse February 13, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    1 comment
  30. Borges on Shakespeare February 6, 2011

    Posted in Miscellania, Quotations.

    3 comments