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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- Essays
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On Torture and Parenting
One of them, who’d read a Ferber book and then went the other way with his daughter, said, “I can’t imagine letting her know you’re there and not giving her what she wants. Why torture her?” 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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