The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first ...
Continue Reading →A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we ...
Continue Reading →Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she ...
Continue Reading →After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation is a linguistics book by literary critic George Steiner, in which the author deals with the “Babel problem” ...
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