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“The so-called Talbot’s Rose, an elaborate genealogical emblem created in 1589 to symbolize the Tudor dynasty,” writes Stephen Greenblatt, “is meant to convey a sense of rightful inheritance, but the image resembles a grotesque face covered with pustules.”
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“Until you know how African you are, you will never know how American you are.” That’s how Master T broke it down, and it’s a pleasure to write on his mighty legacies, for , with help from the critic—Greg Tate—who loved him best.
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“I believe we should consider a theology of the present moment. Our best hope is that the world will continue to be as it is now. Granting injuries and losses...we could figure out how to live with the world as it is at present.” —Marilynne Robinson
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“Although early medieval India was divided into many different competing kingdoms...India as a cultural, sacral, and geographical unit was still the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of Asia.” — on the Indian Ocean
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“She admits that she thrills to the perfectly formed sentence but we hardly need her to tell us as much. The voice is so exact it can pinch. Her prose has high cheekbones.” A fine and exacting appraisal of Judith Thurman’s work by for
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This article on Russian #fascism from 5 years ago treats the influence of Ivan Ilyin's fascist theory on Putin. Ilyin's ideas, down to the anti-Satanism that is Russia's current casus belli, are prominent in Russian media. Putin last quoted Ilyin on 9/30
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“Incarceration, in Wideman’s writing, is the crux of modern life: where the shrieks of chattel slavery meet the drone of spinning capital, as the mind chokes, the body breaks, words melt, and force rules.” — on John Edgar Wideman
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