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What Wittgenstein Learned from Teaching Elementary School
Before he revolutionized philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein was an elementary school teacher in the mountains of rural Austria for six years. Read more about this seldom talked about part of Wittgenstein’s life on our blog.
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Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
The Summer 2015 issue
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Three Millennia Later, Scholars Still Struggle with Sappho
Who was Sappho?
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Cure Your Loneliness. Do the Twist.
Sadie Stein on things to do to cure your loneliness.
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Trollope Gets His 65,000 Words Back
65,000 words from Anthony Trollope’s “The Duke’s Children” will be reinstated in the first-ever unabridged version on the novel, A day in the life of library security guard Marko Petrovich, and our own Peter Gizzi is a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Read more of today’s arts and culture news.
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Seeing the World Through Broken Glasses
“When you can’t see the world well, it is nearly impossible to believe that the world can see you.” —On seeing the world through broken glasses
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Max Blecher‘s Adventures in Immediate Reality
“Nobody knows how to die. Max Blecher, because he was young and a genius, suggests a way that investigates, rediscovers life, and radiates beauty from suffering.” On Max Blecher’s newly reissued Adventures in Immediate Irreality.
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In Which George du Maurier Feels Neglected By His Mom
My dear Mamma, I have just received your letter which is disgustingly short and disappointing after I’ve been waiting day after day—as if you didn’t owe me a letter—fact is, you don’t care half so much for your firstborn as you used, and I’m not going to stand it Madam. —A letter from George du Maurier to his mother, March 1862
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Why Do We Personify the Weather?
Exaggerated alerts and named storms are now part of the media’s normal weather coverage. Dan Piepenbring looks at the language of forecasting and the National Weather Service’s tin-voiced warning machine, Perfect Paul.
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Notes on John Carpenter’s “The Thing”
“The film poses a series of existential questions, the first one being whether it’s even possible to discuss the Thing without sounding totally high.” Dave Tompkins looks at John Carpenter’s cult classic “The Thing.”
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Announcing This Year’s Plimpton Prize and Terry Southern Prize Winners
This year’s Plimpton Prize goes to Atticus Lish for his story “Jimmy,” from issue 210—an excerpt from his novel “Preparation for the Next Life.” The Terry Southern Prize will be awarded to Mark Leyner for “Gone with the Mind,” a story from our new Spring issue.
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The Great National Baby Show
“Nearly every child had a bottle of milk, and after they exhausted their power of suction and filled their infantile stomachs, they yelled.” —From an article in the December 5th, 1877, “Brooklyn Daily Eagle” about “The Great National Baby Show.”
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Need the Right Description? Let the Mustache Be Your Guide
John McPhee and the mustache, sad pop songs are sad, Kingsley Amis’s misanthropic novel, and Jane Austen’s bawdy early work. Read more of today’s arts and culture news.
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Presenting “Big, Bent Ears,” A New Multimedia Project
Introducing “Big, Bent Ears: A Serial in Documentary Uncertainty,” our new 10-part series in partnership with the filmmakers at Rock Fish Stew.