Issue Number 3
Reality
- Book Reviews
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Adventures of a Man of Science
A specter is haunting the academy—the specter of close reading. But don’t worry: as the New York Public Library had the Ghostbusters, the academy has Franco Moretti. More…
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- Music and TV
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The Reality of Reality Television
There is a persistent dream that television will be more than it is: that it will not only sit in every home, but make a conduit for those homes to reach back to a shared fund of life. More…
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Radiohead, Or the Philosophy of Pop
Everyone repeats the received idea that music is revolutionary. Well, is it? More…
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- The Intellectual Situation
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Dating
Dating presents itself as an education in human relationships. In fact it’s an anti-education. You could invent no worse preparation for love, for marriage, than the tireless pursuit of the perfect partner. More…
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The Reading Crisis
Under conditions of the reading crisis, everything a writer does, no matter how self-serving and reprehensible, becomes a blow in the service of literature. More…
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- War in Iraq
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On Torture and Parenting
If parenting, even responsible parenting, made me feel like a torturer . . . the official torturers now conceive of themselves in the same terms as the parenting manuals. More…
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