17+ hour, 13+ min ago  (168+ words) Start a paid subscription to get exclusive access to podcasts, articles, and events. Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual. The Doha flap provided cover'sort of'for the Flemish…...

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1+ week, 5+ day ago  (907+ words) Start a paid subscription to get exclusive access to podcasts, articles, and events. Nao'se Mac Sweeney's new book tries to convince readers that Western civilisation doesn't exist." " A review of The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Nao'se…...

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2+ week, 2+ day ago  (763+ words) Start a paid subscription to get exclusive access to podcasts, articles, and events. A new book by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann examines the female poets and literary critics who challenged seventeenth-century England's male literary establishment. A Review of Sex and Style: Literary…...

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3+ week, 16+ hour ago  (294+ words) Start a paid subscription to get exclusive access to podcasts, articles, and events. Why art and science serve different ends. The multi-generational novel culminates in the choices made by a young man named Cal, Steinbeck's stand-in for Cain. After Cal…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (208+ words) Start a paid subscription to get exclusive access to podcasts, articles, and events. Why Germans fear American religion, and what this reveals about Europe. What interests me about these early critics is not their inaccuracy but their consistency. The specific…...

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