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Michel de Montaigne

Inexplicable and Fatal
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From “Friends for Now,” which appeared in the April 1982 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. When the Midwestern…

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New Books
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John Florio — lexicographer, raconteur, and supposed model for Shakespeare’s schoolmaster Holofernes, in Love’s Labour’s Lost — was born in London in 1553 to an unidentified Englishwoman and an Italian Protestant who’d…

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Let Me Clear My Throat
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Elena Passarello on the animal appeal of the human voice and the art of the lyrical essay

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New Books
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I wonder whether they still make kids read that Stephen Spender poem, the one that begins “I think continually of those who were truly great.” I never liked that poem, as…

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A forgotten celebrity

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