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VERITAS ODIT MORAS Saturday May 14, 2022 Support Arts & Letters Daily × Subscribe to our Newsletter Do not show this again Alternate viewSince 1998, Arts & Letters Daily has linked to more than 17,000 articles, book reviews and essays. Consider supporting us.»May 14, 2022Articles of NoteThe Sally Rooney bucket hat, the Sally Rooney pop-up coffee cart — “It book” swag occupies a bizarre place in literary culture ...more»New BooksLeonardo's Lady With an Ermine survived epidemics, fires, floods, greed, theft, ancient grudges, retribution, and bombing...more»Essays & OpinionsCanada’s tidy, modest institutions have lowered the ceiling on its creative professions. To pursue larger ambitions, move to America...more»May 13, 2022Articles of NoteSometimes a desired perception of political purity gets in the way of achieving just outcomes. OlúfemiO. Táíwò explains...more»New BooksTrained as a doctor, Keats knew the grim reality of 19th-century medicine. He craved beauty because he knew its opposite...more»Essays & OpinionsThe science of plant intelligence is advancing quickly, but it’s hard to comprehend. LSD might help with the conceptual leap...more»May 12, 2022Articles of NoteJason Epstein can lay claim to several titles, but perhaps none as consequential as king of the highbrow paperback...more»New BooksLate in his short life, Baudelaire was honest, ugly, and at odds with himself. Self-lashings alternated with self-help clichés...more»Essays & OpinionsWhen literary London was all cutthroat gossip, boozy lunches, men behaving badly, and parties, parties, parties...more»May 11, 2022Articles of NoteWhat happens when "branding" becomes the most important element to a world-conquering artist? You get a phenomenon like NFTs...more»New BooksWhen a room of their own wasn’t available, some women built one from the materials of motherhood. Hillary Kelly explains...more»Essays & Opinions"Be confident, but not cocky. All writing is an act of vanity. Which is why so many writers are insufferable jackasses." And other writing advice from Matt Labash...more»May 10, 2022Articles of NoteBernard Malamud's mistress. "The fact that he was married and this had to be an undercover affair, I didn’t mind that"...more»New BooksBone-locker, flesh-hoard, weaver-walker, dust-viewing: Old English is rife with delightfully condensed metaphors...more»Essays & OpinionsWhat did Wittgenstein believe? He made an art of inscrutability. Be suspicious of anyone who claims to understand him...more»May 9, 2022Articles of NoteMedieval studies has become a circular firing squad. Can’t scholars settle their disputes with a friendly joust instead?...more»New BooksFor Jean Rhys, pin-thin, often drunk by lunchtime, alcohol and writing were closely entwined...more»Essays & OpinionsThis is a golden age for writers who critique the left with subtlety and sophistication. David Mamet, alas, is more vulgar and less persuasive...more»May 7, 2022Articles of Note"In old age, Twain seemed savvier, angrier, and more embittered than just about any other prominent writer of his generation....more»New BooksGeoff Dyer, 63, fears becoming a "creepy" old man and worries about his neck. Oh, the cruel toll of time...more»Essays & OpinionsAfter Derrida. A new crop of French thinkers continue his work, and seek to escape the legacy of his generation...more»May 6, 2022Articles of Note“Capital ‘T,’ ‘the Truth’ … I don’t think it’s interesting,” says Carlo Rovelli. “The interesting thing is the small ‘t’...more»New BooksOne indication that you've entered a venerable bookstore is that the proprietor is cranky and eccentric...more»Essays & OpinionsIs academic freedom being used as a refuge for white supremacists? A maddening new book fumbles an important debate...more»May 5, 2022Articles of NoteScience advances not by convincing skeptics they are wrong, but by waiting until those skeptics die. Consider Galileo...more»New BooksWhy was it that by the mid-50s, rhythm and raw noise took the place of melody?...more»Essays & OpinionsIs daydreaming a shamefully solipsistic activity, an indulgence in self-centered escapism? Not for Leslie Jamison...more»May 4, 2022Articles of NoteIt's been said that every intellectual forced to emigrate is mutilated. So it was with Czeslaw Miloszin California...more»New BooksThe hidden motors of human history are difficult to see when viewed from a perspective of 300,000 years...more»Essays & OpinionsIt is not the work of a biographer to expose her subject’s least attractive private moments and move on...more»May 3, 2022Articles of NoteDali's "Christ of SaintJohn" inspires many responses, not least the urge to vandalize it...more»New BooksMysterious vibrations. Can the musical note A really trigger cold sweats, fits of depression, and even sightings of dead people?...more»Essays & OpinionsJudge history harshlybut fairly. Progress is not inevitable, but neither is it impossible...more»May 2, 2022Articles of NoteFor the “zesty bibliophile” Emma Smith, books can be both dangerous and benign, and can mean more than their contents...more»New BooksDoes solving puzzles — Rubik’s Cube, Wordle, crosswords — make us better people? The pastime is about satisfaction, not self-improvement...more»Essays & OpinionsDuring the Cold War, the U.S. spent trillions on research. The military got weapons. Science got a lot, too — besides a corrupted conscience...more»April 30, 2022Articles of Note"It takes immense arrogance to be a first sentence. An unbearable aplomb to break the silence"...more»New BooksGreil Marcus “explores the other side of the moon that is America, not the sunlit half but the one where bats fly and owls hoot in the trees”...more»Essays & OpinionsIn many ways, Tocqueville has been wrong-footed by the 21st century. But he got this right: Politics can drive us mad...more»April 29, 2022Articles of NoteDeath, angst, alienation: If Heidegger were alive, he’d be podcasting about the pandemic. At least we have Simon Critchley...more»New BooksCalculation underlies the emotional appeal of a poem. Pattern, structure, repetition, rhythm, meter, diction...more»Essays & OpinionsRichard Howard's poetry is gossipy and theatrical. None of that should distract from the seriousness of its demand...more»April 28, 2022Articles of NoteNot to be confused with fatalism or despair, pessimism has a unique power to console: It’s OK to not be OK...more»New BooksThe personal voice always comes with attendant risks, not least when an eminent scholar turns to memoir. Consider Jonathan Bate...more»Essays & OpinionsLeslie Jamison asks: “Do our daydreams build something, or simply run away from something else?”...more»April 27, 2022Articles of NoteYes, kids can be sophisticated, abstract, and creative thinkers. But do they really make philosophers?...more»New BooksFor Tocqueville, so-called democracies actually build up aristocracies and erect ideological firewalls against popular sovereignty...more»Essays & OpinionsJason Stanley fears being “just another Ivy League professor.” But is literary immortality a helpful goal?...more»April 26, 2022Articles of NoteThe disappearing hyphen. In 2007 Angus Stevenson, a dictionary editor, removed the punctuation mark from 16,000 words. Why?...more»New BooksAgainst relevance. It doesn’t explain the mysterious relationship between an individual and the art that moves them...more»Essays & OpinionsVladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik skewered the Russian-nationalist dream. 16 years after publication, it’s more relevant than ever...more»April 25, 2022Articles of NoteThe Aristotle, the René Decartes, the full Foucault: A philosophy of facial hair...more»New BooksStooge, accomplice, propagandist: Whatever you call Boris Iofan, Stalin's architect had a remarkable knack for survival...more»Essays & OpinionsNew York City produces 8 million pounds of it per day. Beijing: 21.3 million. “We’re choking the planet with poo”...more»April 23, 2022Articles of NoteFor a century, The New York Times Book Review has basically adhered to the same formula. Does it still work?...more»New BooksHow five Cambridge University scholars triggered a revolution in the way we think and talk about books...more»Essays & OpinionsKen Burns’s Benjamin Franklin illustrates everything that is wrong with how most white Americans think about their nation’s founding...more»April 22, 2022Articles of NoteNicholas Kristof was, briefly, the man who would save Oregon. Now he grows pinot noir grapes and insists things worked out for the best...more»New BooksThe world has long been doing vaguely internetty things. But our internet marks a significant transformation...more»Essays & OpinionsWhat is literary criticism for? For Nan Z. Da, it’s in part for the communication of moral intelligence...more»April 21, 2022Articles of NoteNature writers are turning away from facts in favor of less verifiable realms: Can moss be generous? Is grass confident?...more»New BooksBilly Wilder fled Berlin for Paris in 1933. He never let go of the pleasure and pain of his love for the city...more»Essays & Opinions"The idea that humanities scholars are activists first and only then scholars leaves much of the public skeptical of the work we do"...more» Sign Up for our Newsletter × Subscribe to our Newsletter Do not show this again Articles of Note The Sally Rooney bucket hat, the Sally Rooney pop-up coffee cart — “It book” swag occupies a bizarre place in literary culture ...more»Sometimes a desired perception of political purity gets in the way of achieving just outcomes. OlúfemiO. Táíwò explains...more»Jason Epstein can lay claim to several titles, but perhaps none as consequential as king of the highbrow paperback...more»Since 1998, Arts & Letters Daily has linked to more than 17,000 articles, book reviews and essays. Consider supporting us.»What happens when "branding" becomes the most important element to a world-conquering artist? You get a phenomenon like NFTs...more»Bernard Malamud's mistress. "The fact that he was married and this had to be an undercover affair, I didn’t mind that"...more»Medieval studies has become a circular firing squad. Can’t scholars settle their disputes with a friendly joust instead?...more»"In old age, Twain seemed savvier, angrier, and more embittered than just about any other prominent writer of his generation....more»“Capital ‘T,’ ‘the Truth’ … I don’t think it’s interesting,” says Carlo Rovelli. “The interesting thing is the small ‘t’...more»Science advances not by convincing skeptics they are wrong, but by waiting until those skeptics die. Consider Galileo...more»It's been said that every intellectual forced to emigrate is mutilated. So it was with Czeslaw Miloszin California...more»Dali's "Christ of SaintJohn" inspires many responses, not least the urge to vandalize it...more»For the “zesty bibliophile” Emma Smith, books can be both dangerous and benign, and can mean more than their contents...more»"It takes immense arrogance to be a first sentence. An unbearable aplomb to break the silence"...more»Death, angst, alienation: If Heidegger were alive, he’d be podcasting about the pandemic. At least we have Simon Critchley...more»Not to be confused with fatalism or despair, pessimism has a unique power to console: It’s OK to not be OK...more»Yes, kids can be sophisticated, abstract, and creative thinkers. But do they really make philosophers?...more»The disappearing hyphen. In 2007 Angus Stevenson, a dictionary editor, removed the punctuation mark from 16,000 words. Why?...more»The Aristotle, the René Decartes, the full Foucault: A philosophy of facial hair...more»For a century, The New York Times Book Review has basically adhered to the same formula. Does it still work?...more»Nicholas Kristof was, briefly, the man who would save Oregon. Now he grows pinot noir grapes and insists things worked out for the best...more»Nature writers are turning away from facts in favor of less verifiable realms: Can moss be generous? Is grass confident?...more»Honor is an elusive concept, and the prevalence of dueling in history has been underreported...more»Women have been repeatedly erased from intellectual history. A case in point: Mary Hesse...more»“What needs to happen for one who has lost faith or did not ever have faith is a turning. A turning of the heart.” Christopher Beha on religion and writing...more»Foundations and nonprofits dominate the American center left, diminishing the role of public intellectuals...more»"From 2009 to 2012, Facebook and Twitter passed out roughly 1 billion dart guns globally. We’ve been shooting one another ever since”...more»If ever there was a text to navigate the current moment, it's the Book of Job. Too bad we haven’t been reading it right...more»Why is Compact, a new little magazine, defending Russia’s “legitimate security needs”?...more»Science is advanced one peer-reviewed paperat a time. But that process is slow and prone to errors. It’s time for something new...more»The homespun, amateur character of Houellebecq’s intellectualism is what makes him a hero of the post-left...more»A familiar situation: “The American right finds itself once again in the position of trying to remember what it wants”...more»Nicolas Berggruen and the convening power of money. Is this philosophically inclined billionaire the Medici of our time?...more»“When my daughter asked why she couldn’t have an Alexa like her friends, I told her that it is because Alexa steals your dreams and sells them”...more»David Foster Wallace said he was washed up, he’d never write so well again, he couldn’t be a mentor. How was a friend to respond?...more»"In recent years, people have confused beliefs with truths," says Margaret Atwood. "From this confusion have come ideologies and dogmas"...more»What's remarkable about Picasso's art in the 1930s and '40s is the relatively scant imprint of world events...more»The art world is alive with testimonies that blast through doubt, paranoia, dogma, insularity, and irony...more»AI can compose symphonies and hit songs, sculpt and choreograph. But can an algorithm write poetry?...more»For Kafka, hypochondria was more than a state of mind. It gave meaning to his entire world...more»Duke University Press helped move cultural theory from the margins to the center of academic life. But academic power is a double-edged sword...more»New BooksLeonardo's Lady With an Ermine survived epidemics, fires, floods, greed, theft, ancient grudges, retribution, and bombing...more»Trained as a doctor, Keats knew the grim reality of 19th-century medicine. He craved beauty because he knew its opposite...more»Late in his short life, Baudelaire was honest, ugly, and at odds with himself. Self-lashings alternated with self-help clichés...more»When a room of their own wasn’t available, some women built one from the materials of motherhood. Hillary Kelly explains...more»Bone-locker, flesh-hoard, weaver-walker, dust-viewing: Old English is rife with delightfully condensed metaphors...more»For Jean Rhys, pin-thin, often drunk by lunchtime, alcohol and writing were closely entwined...more»Geoff Dyer, 63, fears becoming a "creepy" old man and worries about his neck. Oh, the cruel toll of time...more»One indication that you've entered a venerable bookstore is that the proprietor is cranky and eccentric...more»Why was it that by the mid-50s, rhythm and raw noise took the place of melody?...more»The hidden motors of human history are difficult to see when viewed from a perspective of 300,000 years...more»Mysterious vibrations. Can the musical note A really trigger cold sweats, fits of depression, and even sightings of dead people?...more»Does solving puzzles — Rubik’s Cube, Wordle, crosswords — make us better people? The pastime is about satisfaction, not self-improvement...more»Greil Marcus “explores the other side of the moon that is America, not the sunlit half but the one where bats fly and owls hoot in the trees”...more»Calculation underlies the emotional appeal of a poem. Pattern, structure, repetition, rhythm, meter, diction...more»The personal voice always comes with attendant risks, not least when an eminent scholar turns to memoir. Consider Jonathan Bate...more»For Tocqueville, so-called democracies actually build up aristocracies and erect ideological firewalls against popular sovereignty...more»Against relevance. It doesn’t explain the mysterious relationship between an individual and the art that moves them...more»Stooge, accomplice, propagandist: Whatever you call Boris Iofan, Stalin's architect had a remarkable knack for survival...more»How five Cambridge University scholars triggered a revolution in the way we think and talk about books...more»The world has long been doing vaguely internetty things. But our internet marks a significant transformation...more»Billy Wilder fled Berlin for Paris in 1933. He never let go of the pleasure and pain of his love for the city...more»Derrida, Lacan, Barthes, Foucault, Kristeva, Deleuze: Why do novelists love to fictionalize French philosophers?...more»Those who were seduced by Jacob Taubes’s theological/political patter were then caught up in the emotional wreckage he left behind...more»In 1973, Leonard Cohen felt stuck artistically and frustrated personally. Then he went off to war in the Sinai desert...more»It's magnificent when a piano sounds like it's inside your head. How about when it feels like your head is in the piano?...more»The tragic farce of Tolstoy’s death. His estranged wife was kept outside, pestered by shameless paparazzi...more»Hating the BBC is a long tradition, from Thatcher’s “British Bastard Corporation” to recent charges of elitism and debasement...more»Do strongmen rise spontaneously, borne by cults of personality? Or is something more structural at work?...more»Humans are not efficient calculating machines, but metaphysical animals endowed with a defining question: Why?...more»Is Adrian Vermeule's constitutionalism based on the "common good" or on his quixotic and radical Christianity?...more»To its winners, World War II is often heralded as a moral triumph. This conveniently ignores its having been a war for empire-building...more»Liberalism faces many discontents, says Francis Fukuyama, but it remains the best framework for ensuring rights in a diverse society...more»Long novels offer pleasures that come from having traveled with a character over time. Can gimmicks reproduce that in shorter books?...more»Star power is rooted in the tension between the accessible and the inaccessible. Thus celebrity reclusiveness is a potent form of power. Consider Garbo...more»“The world for me is like an immense parkland.” Life was easy for the French photographer Jacques Lartigue...more»"Somewhere out there, cars seem to suggest, is an authentic reality that, if we could only drive for long enough, we could find”...more»Why did intellectuals glorify Stalin? Because Stalin was an intellectual, and the intellectuals envied his power...more»A French scientific academy’s 1739 essay contest offers clues to a 21st-century question: Who is Black, and why?...more»In retirement, a former dean of Yale Law School seeks nothing less than a reconciliation between God and science...more»Essays & OpinionsCanada’s tidy, modest institutions have lowered the ceiling on its creative professions. To pursue larger ambitions, move to America...more» The science of plant intelligence is advancing quickly, but it’s hard to comprehend. LSD might help with the conceptual leap...more» When literary London was all cutthroat gossip, boozy lunches, men behaving badly, and parties, parties, parties...more»"Be confident, but not cocky. All writing is an act of vanity. Which is why so many writers are insufferable jackasses." And other writing advice from Matt Labash...more»What did Wittgenstein believe? He made an art of inscrutability. Be suspicious of anyone who claims to understand him...more»This is a golden age for writers who critique the left with subtlety and sophistication. David Mamet, alas, is more vulgar and less persuasive...more»After Derrida. A new crop of French thinkers continue his work, and seek to escape the legacy of his generation...more»Is academic freedom being used as a refuge for white supremacists? A maddening new book fumbles an important debate...more»Is daydreaming a shamefully solipsistic activity, an indulgence in self-centered escapism? Not for Leslie Jamison...more»It is not the work of a biographer to expose her subject’s least attractive private moments and move on...more»Judge history harshlybut fairly. Progress is not inevitable, but neither is it impossible...more»During the Cold War, the U.S. spent trillions on research. The military got weapons. Science got a lot, too — besides a corrupted conscience...more»In many ways, Tocqueville has been wrong-footed by the 21st century. But he got this right: Politics can drive us mad...more»Richard Howard's poetry is gossipy and theatrical. None of that should distract from the seriousness of its demand...more»Leslie Jamison asks: “Do our daydreams build something, or simply run away from something else?”...more»Jason Stanley fears being “just another Ivy League professor.” But is literary immortality a helpful goal?...more»Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik skewered the Russian-nationalist dream. 16 years after publication, it’s more relevant than ever...more»New York City produces 8 million pounds of it per day. Beijing: 21.3 million. “We’re choking the planet with poo”...more»Ken Burns’s Benjamin Franklin illustrates everything that is wrong with how most white Americans think about their nation’s founding...more»What is literary criticism for? For Nan Z. Da, it’s in part for the communication of moral intelligence...more»"The idea that humanities scholars are activists first and only then scholars leaves much of the public skeptical of the work we do"...more»Since Beethoven, composers of classical music have had to fill three roles: the genius, the technocrat, and the entrepreneur...more»Kingsley Amis never stopped writing poetry, even though it was repeatedly panned. Just how bad was it?...more»Freedom from the torments of life online begins with a proper demonology, says Alan Jacobs. "Later we may proceed to exorcism"...more»In Franz Liszt's life and in his music, we see an artist struggling to reconcile selfishness and salvation...more»Forty-five years after passing her oral exams, a graduate student finally submitted her dissertation. But had literary studies moved too far on?...more»Mailer and Vidal once traded memorable barbs. Now we have underwhelming Twitter spats. The literary feud is at risk of irrelevance...more»“Liar” is a powerful accusation, one that closes doors to understanding. Use it carefully...more»For Louis Menand, historians are engaged in storytelling, not science — and provide no objective accounts of the past...more»Laura Kipnis: Why is gender such a melee? Can’t it be a comedy instead of a tragedy, a playground and not a police state?...more»After a 40-year campaign, critics of meritocracy are coming closer to dethroning the system. But what will replace it?...more»With endless logistical information online, and the pandemic still hindering travel, are we seeing the death of the guide book?...more»The faux precision, dubious formulas, and unfortunate power of “Best College” rankings are the banes of a college president’s existence...more»At 90, the poetry critic Marjorie Perloff doesn't want to analyze verse. She wants to discuss Wittgenstein and Duchamp...more»Yes, virtue signaling can be annoying and sometimes disingenuous. But does that mean it's bad?...more»Can a new narrative of American classical music serve as an antidote to the ahistorical narcissism of our culture?...more»Like avant-garde masterpieces, bad movies push past norms to reveal new possibilities of human expression...more»In a dogmatic world, cherish skepticism. It reminds us that experts and the majority of the public might be wrong today....more»“If Gramsci has aged better than many of his peers, it is in part because he became a thinker for a defeated, rather than a triumphalist, left”...more»In an otherwise incoherent editorial approach, Compact magazine seeks to assail liberalism. It’s failing even at that...more»David Stromberg read one chapter of Lacan per week for 20 straight weeks. What’d he learn? Lacan’s mistake...more»The movies long enjoyed a commanding cultural position as America’s central popular-art form. That era has come to an end...more»Van Gogh: “Degas’s painting is virile and impersonal precisely because he has resigned himself to being personally no more than a little notary”...more»When he doubted his poetry, John Berryman doubted absolutely. But mostly he couldn’t understand why the world wasn’t celebrating his genius...more»Since the Renaissance, quotations, prose fragments, and tidbits have been recorded in the commonplace book. It’s a practice worth keeping...more»Seeking an academic job, Karl Popper mortgaged his house to finance a lecture tour. It did not go well...more»Decades after his death, W.G. 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