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Eamonn Wall on Philip Casey

Eamonn Wall on Philip Casey

Philip was a great friend of mine. I loved him like a brother and miss him dearly. My collection of his work is not only a personal treasure…

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Van Gogh became enthralled by the gnarled, scarred olive trees…

Van Gogh became enthralled by the gnarled, scarred olive trees…

In Vincent van Gogh’s fragile condition, the strong, enduring trees with their anguished limbs seemed to echo Christ’s suffering…

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Kyiv to Khmelnytskyi

Kyiv to Khmelnytskyi

Sofia, Dima, Vika, Andriy and Maryna left their hometown in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region after Russia took control of it in 2014…

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Maybe Lion King not shown in Barrow?

Maybe Lion King not shown in Barrow?

A few years after The Waste Land appeared, Torquemada pioneered the cryptic crossword…

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The Ukrainian people have rallied…

The Ukrainian people have rallied…

Here is my account of the first day of Russia’s full-scale intervention in Ukraine…

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Surveillance Advertising Space

Surveillance Advertising Space

Clinton’s ‘New Democrats’ were eager to partner up with the private sector to draft the first comprehensive set of internet policies…

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Old New Music

Old New Music

New music includes sounds we’ve never heard before, regardless of how old the tunes might be…

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GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS

GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS

Though the twenty-four-hour news cycle has done much to stoke our contemporary ideological divides, the roots of this phenomenon can be situated centuries ago…

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100 Years of Ulysses

100 Years of Ulysses

On February 2 2022, Ulysses turns 100…

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Torments of Unclarity

Torments of Unclarity

Why did Husserl begin thinking about movement? What was it that inspired him to make what one might call “the movement turn”?

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God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Remembering Jean-Luc Nancy

God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Remembering Jean-Luc Nancy

For Nancy, democracy is not a given form of government, with a fixed meaning, but a term whose meaning is in contestation…

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Conservation of Conservation

Conservation of Conservation

The book runs the gamut of conservation techniques: specimen collection and field research, zoos and nature preserves, assisted colonization, and de-extinction via genetic rescue…

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From

From

Some cosmologists believe a previous, cold dark empty universe like the one which lies in our far future could have been the source of our very own Big Bang…

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Extraordinary Winter

Extraordinary Winter

Beginning in December 1917, a powerful series of unrelenting and formidable ice storms and blizzards wreaked havoc across the United States…

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‘Few vaudevillistes can escape the contagion’

‘Few vaudevillistes can escape the contagion’

Your literature amounts to nothing now Having picked up all of romanticism’s errors, Its writings all reveal the face of Nature, Poor and decrepit, surrounded by great horrors…

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“Play that thing, Jazz band!”

“Play that thing, Jazz band!”

To experience a version of the cool exhilaration of a mid-twentieth-century American jazz night, one might start by listening to an iconic Miles Davis recording…

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Climate Caucasianism Against the Heavenly Way

Climate Caucasianism Against the Heavenly Way

Eco-ontologists in Japan had long regarded coal-mining activities in Japan by Westerners as an interruption of the human-heaven relationship…

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Wine in Fascist Italy

Wine in Fascist Italy

Wine growers, merchants and industrialists worked feverishly to rehabilitate the beverage’s downtrodden reputation…

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Infinite Edits

Infinite Edits

Michael Pietsch and David Foster Wallace’s collaboration on Infinite Jest highlights the intervenient role of the editor as the mediator between the author and the reader, or the author and the publisher…

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Vaccinating Austria

Vaccinating Austria

Austria’s government has pointed the finger of blame firmly at the unvaccinated…

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