Literature
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Creativity and Inequality
Where does genius come from—nature or nurture?
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So You Want to Be Joan Didion . . .
The celebrity journalist’s fandom misses the point of her life and work.
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The Necessity of the Classics
We need them as never before, and yet they go unread.
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Finding the True Capote
An encounter with the man who refashioned American nonfiction in his image.
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Faith With Feeling: Eliot’s “Four Quartets”
It contains both the drama and the architecture of belief necessary for a full poetic experience.
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War and Character
A novel of the Nigerian Civil War finds redemption amid ruin.
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Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Helena’ Revisited
A novel about the quiet greatness of Constantine’s mother.
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Joseph Conrad Uncensored
His work withstands his critics a century after his death.
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G. K. C.
Populist, poet, apologist: Chesterton was a man for his time and ours.
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Dune: The Perfect Deathwork
How the thought of Philip Rieff illuminates a modern epic.
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