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A Catastrophic Purity April 25, 2022
WHEN I WAS TWENTY, I wrote my autobiography. Short, laudatory, and in the third person, it told the story of my birth as a composer. I let my audience (who I hadn’t found yet) know what to listen for in my music (which I hadn’t written yet) so they c...
Revisiting Nazi Myths October 30, 2020
This is a strange book, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. More a collection of essays than a straight read-through, Richard Evans examines five issues concerning the Third Reich that continue to attract huge amounts of speculation.He starts by loo...
The Crisis of the Two Party System October 21, 2020
Here is a version of the old rock-paper-scissors game, on a topic that should be of urgent concern to people on the left: How did Trump’s America happen, and what can we do to dislodge its hold on our politics? One can argue that Donald Trump didn’t ...
Kafka In Pieces October 09, 2020
THE UNFINISHED DRAFT OF THE CASTLE, Franz Kafka’s third and final novel, ends mid-sentence. But when the manuscript made its initial entree into the world, the text had been edited into completion. Max Brod, Kafka’s friend and literary executor, who ...
