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20th century

Say Watt?

From a letter by Samuel Beckett, dated February 14, 1957, responding with what he called “heart-felt sympathy” to queries from a German translator of his 1935 poetry collection Echo’s Bones…

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The Seductive Catastrophe

Why the world went to war in 1914

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Armed and Dangerous

The inexorable rise of American militarism

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Library of Dribble

From Conversations, a collection of dialogues conducted in 1984 and 1985 between Jorge Luis Borges and the Argentine poet Osvaldo Ferrari, out next month from Seagull Books. Translated from the…

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Syphilitic

Revisiting James Joyce’s medical record

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Stop Time

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

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