“What apple? In 1588 Violante Scaglione testified: ‘Adam’s apple was Eve’s butt, not the pit of the fruit that got stuck in his throat when he was called by God.’” —@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the real “forbidden fruit”
historian at durham / writer and critic, mostly for the lrb and nyrb. i'm writing a history of the female body, out in june!
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"...I considered, instead, describing the little pools of saturated ink in the manuscript poems of Emily Dickinson, where she paused and rested her pen while gathering thought for her next astonishing turn."
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For @nybooks.com, I wrote about my professor the (alleged) papyri thief, and the long history of papyrological misdeeds www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
“Whenever liberalism is under threat from fanatical ideologies, The Magic Mountainwill remain relevant—which makes Morten Høi Jensen’s book only too timely”
Adam Kirsch on Morten Høi Jensen and Thomas Mann
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In writing The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann struggled to free himself from his artistic preoccupation with sickness and death.
“We cannot help but want to register what Paul Klee caught, however sketchily or elliptically, about the atmosphere of violence, intimidation, and strife suffusing everyday life [in Nazi Germany].” —Sanford Schwartz
Fintan O'Toole on Steve Hilton’s journey from Downing Street to Fox News
Phil Klay
Madeleine Schwartz
The New York Review of Books
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“Énard's leading men are students of their own shortcomings. They’re apt to say or do the wrong thing at the wrong time and feel the abyss open beneath them.” —Christopher Byrd
“By putting their bodies at the mercy of the Israeli state,“ writes Piper French, “the flotilla activists are...pressuring their countries to uphold the principles of international law that Israel is daring them to disregard.”
“Suburban life makes those who deliver parcels seem like the tooth fairy—you drive off to your job in the morning and return to find the Amazon packages on your doorstep.” —@rumaan.bsky.social
The investigation into the origin of papyrus fragments that the owners of Hobby Lobby purchased from an Oxford scholar underscores papyrology’s long history of shady deals and ulterior motives.
An exhibition of Paul Klee’s late works focuses on his depictions of the atmosphere of violence and intimidation in Germany after the Nazis came to power.
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Hu Anyan’s memoir about delivering packages in Beijing is disarmingly direct about the human cost of modern logistics.
When a ship sends out a Mayday signal, nearby vessels have a duty to come to its aid. This is a core tenet of maritime law. But on Monday, May 18, when a
