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God and booze 28 Feb 2013 | 06:58 am
God and booze. Ancient Egyptians drank beer; the Greeks praised Dionysus. Buddhists, Muslims, and Mormons take a dimmer view of intoxicants. Christians can’t decide… more»
Arts & Letters Daily (01 Aug 2012) 1 Aug 2012 | 12:00 pm
Gore Vidal, witty, acerbic gadfly, novelist, memoirist, essayist - "an American version of Montaigne" - is dead at 86... NY Times... LA Times... Wash Post... Telegraph The anticolonialism of Liang Qi...
Arts & Letters Daily (31 Jul 2012) 31 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
Adam Wheeler went to Harvard to study English and ended up in prison. His crime? Fraud. What's worse, he made Harvard look stupid... more Titian was a mercenary who was expert at satisfying the vanit...
Arts & Letters Daily (30 Jul 2012) 30 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
Holocaust histories dodge a central question, says Timothy Snyder: Why did it take place in Eastern Europe rather than elsewhere?... more T.S. Eliot was down. He'd separated from his wife, The Criter...
Arts & Letters Daily (29 Jul 2012) 29 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
How did the Aleppo Codex - the oldest text of the Hebrew Bible - end up in an iron case at Hebrew University? Why are 200 pages missing?... more Shark! We hunt them; they hunt us. The very word summo...
Arts & Letters Daily (28 Jul 2012) 28 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
How did the Aleppo Codex - the oldest text of the Hebrew Bible - end up in an iron case at Hebrew University? Why are 200 pages missing?... more Shark! We hunt them; they hunt us. The very word summo...
Arts & Letters Daily (29 May 2012) 29 May 2012 | 04:00 pm
A philosophy of love. What's a French lefty like Alain Badiou doing preaching monogamy? "If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic"... more The Origins of the Golden Rule. Long the s...
Arts & Letters Daily (28 May 2012) 28 May 2012 | 04:00 pm
On the topics of poetry, class, and tourism, Paul Fussell was acute and acerbic. But he was at his best when writing about organized killing... NY Times... Slate Voltaire teaches that even when you d...
Arts & Letters Daily (27 May 2012) 27 May 2012 | 04:00 pm
On the topics of poetry, class, and tourism, Paul Fussell was acute and acerbic. But he was at his best when writing about organized killing... NY Times... Slate P.G. Wodehouse's stay in wartime Berl...
Arts & Letters Daily (26 May 2012) 26 May 2012 | 04:00 pm
On the topics of poetry, class, and tourism, Paul Fussell was acute and acerbic. But he was at his best when writing about organized killing... more P.G. Wodehouse's stay in wartime Berlin might make...
