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Why should we look for comfort in poetry?
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The politics of literary scapegoating
Henry James's curriculum vitae
Did Mahler get the biographer he deserves?
Rodolphe T??¶pffer's squiggles and squibs
From Plato to Penrose, the music is the message
Resisting the tyranny of the brain
Gershom Scholem's decisive years
W.G. Sebald's melancholy art
The strange history of hygiene
The specter of a no-growth world
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