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What’s the Story? April 24, 2024

The Scottish astrologer James Bassantin, born during the reign of James IV, was what we would now term a hustler. He believed himself of a learnedness and sophistication befitting the highest intellectual circles of Renaissance Europe and would do an...

On Anne Carson’s “Wrong Norma” April 23, 2024

Something is rotten in the state of contemporary literature. You can smell it from a mile off—in the Poetry Foundation’s censorship of a review that espoused anti-Zionist views; in the Frankfurt Book Fair rescinding the Palestinian writer Adania Shib...