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November 25, 2024Alexander Pope is hardly an unknown quantity. Born in London to a family of merchants in 1688 and buried in a Catholic Church in the suburb of Twickenham in 1744, he has a...- November 1, 2024RIOTS IN PARIS GRAB THE HEADLINES, but the real radicalism in France happens in the countryside. Take the zone à défendre, or ZAD, in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. What began...
September 30, 2024The title of Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, Intermezzo, refers to a move in chess, more commonly known as a Zwischenzug, in which a player delays a favourable move, such as...
April 8, 2024Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr Ripley pickpockets the plot of Henry James’s The Ambassadors (1903) and turns it into a detective...
March 29, 2024The American language, like the American landscape, is a trash heap. On top of the hundreds of thousands of loan words from over three hundred languages handed down from its British...
