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Nicolás Maduro - After the Scapegoat
A guest post from blogger William C. Green from 2 + 2 = 5
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Modiano: is he a modern-day Proust?
Nobel author Patrick Modiano's "In the Café of Lost Youth" brings anonymous lives to light. Join us on February 18 for a Stanford discussion of the…
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"She had a whim of iron": Remembering British-American poet Anne Stevenson
"Study history. Study science. Study philosophy or psychology if you must. Study languages and the way they work. Study literature. But above all, learn…
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The "satiric, terrifying" legacy of poet Weldon Kees
According to poet Dana Gioia: "He was a head-spinning cocktail of contradictions—simultaneously satiric and terrifying, intimate and enigmatic."
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Dostoevsky on happiness
It's closer than you think...
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An English king honors a Hungarian poet and translator
What's it like to be fêted in Buckingham Palace? A Hungarian found out. The king "seemed a man free of smarm, pomp and patronising kindness."
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"Only humans want to own the future."
Remembering Tom Stoppard, 1937-2025
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About books, culture, and my nutty preoccupations. I welcome conversations about French theorist René Girard, Nobel poets Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky. I knew all 3 and wrote books about all 3. All are gone, so we're left with memories and words.
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