It's not every day that an international dispute of Kafkaesque proportions shakes up the literary world, but one involving the author himself is doing just that. Read more…
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In the late 1950s, English students at the University of Virginia got the opportunity that most American literature scholars would kill for — to speak with William Faulkner. Read more…
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The heavy musk of Hemingway is in the air this summer: It has something to do with the fact that it's the 110th anniversary of Papa's birth. Scribner, Hemingway's longtime publisher, is reissuing all of his novels; they're also bringing out a mildly interesting new book in August called The Hemingway Patrols about the writer's hunt [...]
Read more >>>Plato: ancient Greek philosopher's 'secret music code' cracked by British scientists
Researchers claimed they cracked “The Plato Code”, the long disputed secret messages hidden in some of Ancient World’s most influential and celebrated writings. Read more…
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Philosopher whose distinctive voice stood above the fray
Brian O'Shaughnessy, who has died aged 84, was one of philosophy's most distinctive voices. An Australian long resident in Britain, where he retired from full-time teaching at King's College London in 1991, he remained at the height of his intellectual powers right up to his death. Last year he published a [...]
Read more >>>By 1900, nearly everyone agreed that there was something special about the Germans. Their philosophy was more profound — to a fault. So was their music. Their scientists and engineers were clearly the best. Their soldiers were unmatched. Read more…
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It’s hard to imagine a more fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life on the Earth than gravity, from the moment you first took a step and fell on your diapered bottom to the slow terminal sagging of flesh and dreams. Read more…
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Read more >>>Nothing creates more misunderstanding of the results of scientific research than scientists’ use of metaphors. It is not only the general public that they confuse, but their own understanding of nature that is led astray. The most famous and influential example is Darwin’s invention of the term “natural selection,” which, he wrote in On the Origin [...]
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