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• <strong>When Wittgenstein went to war</strong>, the gossip machine quickly determined that he was a burnt-out wreck and a disgrace to the field

  14-11-2019 03:00 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  When Wittgenstein went to war, the gossip machine quickly determined that he was a burnt-out wreck and a disgrace to the field
  
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• <strong>Kate Manne&rsquo;s moral quandary</strong>: to respond to all suffering, at the expense of herself? Or to prioritize her philosophical work and live with the guilt?

  14-11-2019 03:00 via Arts & Letters Daily
  Kate Manne’s moral quandary: to respond to all suffering, at the expense of herself? Or to prioritize her philosophical work and live with the guilt?
  
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• <strong>Ibsen</strong> was reviled by some as immoral, hailed by others as prophetic. James Joyce thought him the most influential intellect of his time. Ibsen retains his potency today

  14-11-2019 03:00 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Ibsen was reviled by some as immoral, hailed by others as prophetic. James Joyce thought him the most influential intellect of his time. Ibsen retains his potency today
  
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• ‘The Survivors’ Unpacks a Family’s Trauma

  13-11-2019 21:59 via Books and Literature
  
  In his book, Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, reflects on his grandparents’ lives in World War II and explores new revelations.
  
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• ‘Black Radical’ Remembers a Bold Life and Reclaims It for Our Current Moment

  13-11-2019 21:08 via Books and Literature
  
  Kerri K. Greenidge’s tells the story of William Monroe Trotter, born in 1872, an outspoken and indefatigable figure who both inspired and antagonized his contemporaries.
  
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• Jamaica: A Small Nation With an Outsize Global Influence

  13-11-2019 20:00 via Books and Literature
  
  Orlando Patterson’s “The Confounding Island” is a sociologist’s analysis of his birthplace as well as a personal memoir of affection and failure.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr. Airs Family Grievances (One Book at a Time)

  13-11-2019 19:42 via Books and Literature
  
  The president’s eldest son is using a newfound platform as an author to recast the story of the 2016 election — and every political battle that came after.
  
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• How to Beat the Market

  13-11-2019 19:00 via Books and Literature
  
  Gregory Zuckerman’s “The Man Who Solved the Market” tells the extraordinary story of an investor (not named Warren Buffett) who made a fortune on Wall Street.
  
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• Literary Nonprofit Buys Elizabeth Bishop’s Key West Home

  13-11-2019 11:00 via Books and Literature
  
  The poet lived on the Florida island for nearly a decade, and her former house will become the headquarters for Key West Literary Seminar.
  
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• In a Chaotic World, Dungeons & Dragons Is Resurgent

  13-11-2019 11:00 via Books and Literature
  
  The role-playing game has made a surprising return to mainstream culture.
  
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• Which words should be banished? &ldquo;Adorkable,&rdquo; &ldquo;YOLO,&rdquo; and &ldquo;influencer&rdquo; are popular suggestions. But <strong>policing language</strong> is a fraught exercise

  13-11-2019 03:44 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Which words should be banished? “Adorkable,” “YOLO,” and “influencer” are popular suggestions. But policing language is a fraught exercise
  
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• <strong>What makes a "bad movie" good</strong>? "These sorts of movies fascinate me in the way a too-honest idiot does, after he&rsquo;s had three or four drinks"

  13-11-2019 03:44 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  What makes a "bad movie" good? "These sorts of movies fascinate me in the way a too-honest idiot does, after he’s had three or four drinks"
  
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• Is most modern liberalism just the Christian heresy of Pelagianism by another name? A <strong>revisionist critique of John Rawls</strong> says yes

  13-11-2019 03:44 via Arts & Letters Daily
  Is most modern liberalism just the Christian heresy of Pelagianism by another name? A revisionist critique of John Rawls says yes
  
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• Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff

  12-11-2019 21:41 via Books and Literature
  
  In “Parisian Lives,” the award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair recounts her early career and the obstacles she faced as an ambitious woman.
  
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• Two Weeks With Prabal Gurung, in Pictures

  12-11-2019 21:08 via Books and Literature
  
  We sent the designer an instant camera and he captured a trip to Los Angeles, to celebrate his new book, and all the activity of his New York studio.
  
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• Patient Care Is Wrenching: A Psychiatrist, a Nurse and a Doctor Bare All

  12-11-2019 17:33 via Books and Literature
  
  Three new books by medical professionals delve into the human emotions involved in tending to the gravely ill.
  
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• New & Noteworthy, From Philosophy to New York Architecture

  12-11-2019 17:33 via Books and Literature
  
  A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
  
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• Who’s in the Kitchen: A Quartet of Culinary Narratives

  12-11-2019 11:00 via Books and Literature
  
  Memoirs by a globe-trotting chef and a New York restaurant critic, a chorus of female food writers — and a history book to put them all in context.
  
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• The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More.

  12-11-2019 11:00 via Books and Literature
  
  A new crop of adaptations proves that comic book artists can be complex and effective in tackling other writers’ work.
  
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• Testimonies From the Day the Towers Came Down

  12-11-2019 11:00 via Books and Literature
  
  The audiobook of Garrett M. Graff’s “The Only Plane in the Sky” offers vivid memories of people who were present at the 9/11 tragedy.
  
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• Seeing Margaret Thatcher Whole

  12-11-2019 11:00 via Books and Literature
  
  “Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography — Herself Alone,” the third volume of Charles Moore’s massive biography, takes the story from her final years in power to her death in 2013.
  
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• Garry Shandling’s Riotous Scrapbook

  12-11-2019 11:00 via Books and Literature
  
  “It’s Garry Shandling’s Book,” edited by Judd Apatow, brims with photos, diary excerpts, reminiscences, newspaper clippings, script pages and more.
  
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• For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character

  12-11-2019 11:00 via Books and Literature
  
  “Essays One” collects occasional pieces by the author and translator known for her wry wit and exacting syntax.
  
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• Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’

  12-11-2019 11:00 via Books and Literature
  
  In his new collection of essays, the author reflects on growing up black and privileged, and the legacy of his parents’ civil rights activism.
  
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• TN literature enthusiast translates Sangam Tamil poems - News Today

  12-11-2019 08:20 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  TN literature enthusiast translates Sangam Tamil poems  News Today
  
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• Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2020 line-up: Ranulph Fiennes, Nadiya Hussain, Hazza Al Mansouri and Tayari Jones - The National

  12-11-2019 08:11 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2020 line-up: Ranulph Fiennes, Nadiya Hussain, Hazza Al Mansouri and Tayari Jones  The National
  
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• Greenfield student part of spooky literature course - Greenfield Daily Reporter

  12-11-2019 07:14 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Greenfield student part of spooky literature course  Greenfield Daily Reporter
  
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• Why aren’t we reading Hindi literature: Panel at Women Writer’s Fest Lucknow - SheThePeople

  12-11-2019 06:35 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Why aren’t we reading Hindi literature: Panel at Women Writer’s Fest Lucknow  SheThePeople
  
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• International Nepali Literature Society awards several literary figures from home - https://www.nepal24hours.com

  12-11-2019 02:53 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  International Nepali Literature Society awards several literary figures from home  https://www.nepal24hours.com
  
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• The origin stories of big ideas highlight the eureka moments. But it's the mundane work that is key. <strong>Inspiration</strong> favors the prepared mind

  12-11-2019 02:43 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  The origin stories of big ideas highlight the eureka moments. But it's the mundane work that is key. Inspiration favors the prepared mind
  
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• <strong>Elizabeth Bishop</strong>&rsquo;s dogged pertinacity: She would spend years, even decades, on a poem. Every word, every nuance, had to be perfect

  12-11-2019 02:43 via Arts & Letters Daily
  Elizabeth Bishop’s dogged pertinacity: She would spend years, even decades, on a poem. Every word, every nuance, had to be perfect
  
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• Guilty pleasures make us feel guilty because we know the shoddiness of what we&rsquo;re getting but desire it all the same. What's going on? <strong>Ask Adorno</strong>

  12-11-2019 02:43 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Guilty pleasures make us feel guilty because we know the shoddiness of what we’re getting but desire it all the same. What's going on? Ask Adorno
  
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• Book A Literature Alive Field Trip To Playhouse On Park's MERRILEE MANNERLY - A MAGNIFICENT NEW MUSICAL - Broadway World

  12-11-2019 00:57 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Book A Literature Alive Field Trip To Playhouse On Park's MERRILEE MANNERLY - A MAGNIFICENT NEW MUSICAL  Broadway World
  
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• 'Missing Marvin' wins Children's Peace Literature Award - Books+Publishing

  12-11-2019 00:15 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  'Missing Marvin' wins Children's Peace Literature Award  Books+Publishing
  
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• Mesha Maren on publishing fiction without an MFA - Iowa City Press-Citizen

  11-11-2019 23:04 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  Mesha Maren on publishing fiction without an MFA  Iowa City Press-Citizen
  
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• Literature, politics, and resistance: Part - III - The News International

  11-11-2019 20:11 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Literature, politics, and resistance: Part - III  The News International
  
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• The Zagat Guide Is Back in Print

  11-11-2019 20:00 via Books and Literature
  
  After a three-year absence, the New York City survey will return on Tuesday with the same cover and pocket-size dimensions.
  
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• Day 2 of Tribal Literature Fest - Daily Pioneer

  11-11-2019 19:50 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Day 2 of Tribal Literature Fest  Daily Pioneer
  
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• 'America's Great Undiscovered Literature:' Letters From U.S. Soldiers - WUWM

  11-11-2019 19:43 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  'America's Great Undiscovered Literature:' Letters From U.S. Soldiers  WUWM
  
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• Shortlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 unveiled - Asian Image

  11-11-2019 18:51 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Shortlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 unveiled  Asian Image
  
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• Faith and Reasons: Two Authors Explore the Persistence of Religious Feeling

  11-11-2019 18:46 via Books and Literature
  
  Jack Miles, in “Religion as We Know It,” and Melvin Konner, in “Believers,” both turn to history to understand the nature of belief.
  
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• Bhopal: Book on Nyishi folktales titled 'Uiimok' was released at Tribal Literature Festival - Arunachal24

  11-11-2019 18:37 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Bhopal: Book on Nyishi folktales titled 'Uiimok' was released at Tribal Literature Festival  Arunachal24
  
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• What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts?

  11-11-2019 18:31 via Books and Literature
  
  Karen Armstrong’s new book argues that Scripture is meant to be interpreted by the spirit of the words, not by the letter of the law.
  
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• Meryl Streep Wants to Tell You a Bedtime Story

  11-11-2019 18:21 via Books and Literature
  
  Contemporary actors revivify E.B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web” and an unpublished work by Dr. Seuss.
  
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• The announcement of the death of Nobel laureate in literature Alice Munro turned out to be fake - FREE NEWS

  11-11-2019 18:18 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  The announcement of the death of Nobel laureate in literature Alice Munro turned out to be fake  FREE NEWS
  
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• "<strong>Liberalism</strong>" is a slippery word for Americans, who have no experience of anything else. Now critics are falling over themselves

  11-11-2019 17:41 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  "Liberalism" is a slippery word for Americans, who have no experience of anything else. Now critics are falling over themselves
  
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• Internet Literature Market Size by Type, Product, Application & Market Opportunities 2019-2024 - Herald Publicist 24

  11-11-2019 16:04 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Internet Literature Market Size by Type, Product, Application & Market Opportunities 2019-2024  Herald Publicist 24
  
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• Five suspense thriller authors in literature that you must read - Republic World - Republic World

  11-11-2019 15:41 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Five suspense thriller authors in literature that you must read - Republic World  Republic World
  
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• Children's literature festival in US focusses on books by authors from Indian diaspora - Yahoo India News

  11-11-2019 15:28 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  
  Children's literature festival in US focusses on books by authors from Indian diaspora  Yahoo India News
  
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• Literature, history and culture featured in Georgia Southern's MA and MAT in Spanish - The George-Anne

  11-11-2019 15:18 via "allintitle:Literature" - Google News
  Literature, history and culture featured in Georgia Southern's MA and MAT in Spanish  The George-Anne
  
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