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31.
T.S. Eliot, Populist(firstthings.com)
41 points by drjohnson 8y ago|37 comments
32.
Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire or a Critique?(newyorker.com)
52 points by drjohnson 8y ago|14 comments
33.
What Makes a Waif?(lrb.co.uk)
47 points by drjohnson 8y ago|5 comments
34.
Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange(nytimes.com)
29 points by drjohnson 8y ago|2 comments
35.
The wit and wisdom of Dr Johnson is still of benefit to us all(spectator.co.uk)
24 points by drjohnson 8y ago|1 comments
36.
Joking Aside, Rube Goldberg Got Tech Right(collectorsweekly.com)
49 points by drjohnson 8y ago|5 comments
37.
Samuel Johnson, would-be attorney-at-law(laphamsquarterly.org)
30 points by drjohnson 9y ago|0 comments
38.
The Anti-Bamboozler: Early writings of H. L. Mencken(weeklystandard.com)
63 points by drjohnson 9y ago|30 comments
39.
Like modern democracies, ancient Greek democracy had an anger problem(neh.gov)
160 points by drjohnson 9y ago|73 comments
40.
Up a Wombat's Freckle(the-tls.co.uk)
51 points by drjohnson 9y ago|25 comments
41.
The fifty shades of Latin(riowang.blogspot.com)
131 points by drjohnson 9y ago|64 comments
42.
by drjohnson 10y ago
The article describes all that, but it never says what is new. If you Google "brooke dethick" you'll find that the argument about coats of arms has appeared in lots of previous work about Shakespeare. The other details are ev
43.
by drjohnson 10y ago
Yes, I read that paragraph. It's anything but clear: " It’s at this point in the story that Wolfe discovered “the smoking gun”. In the Brooke-Dethick feud, it becomes clear that “Shakespeare, Gent. from Stratford” and “Shakespeare
44.
by drjohnson 10y ago
This is interesting, but what specifically did she discover? The article is confusingly written and never makes it clear what the "smoking gun" actually is.
45.
On the trail of the Man in the Iron Mask(the-tls.co.uk)
15 points by drjohnson 10y ago|1 comments
46.
Mann’s inhumanity to Mann(the-tls.co.uk)
37 points by drjohnson 10y ago|3 comments
47.
Alan Kay's reading list(squeakland.org)
575 points by drjohnson 10y ago|168 comments
48.
A new edition of Burke's writings, speeches, and essays(standpointmag.co.uk)
28 points by drjohnson 11y ago|2 comments
49.
Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake(literaryreview.co.uk)
19 points by drjohnson 11y ago|0 comments
50.
Shakespeare's Badass Quarto(chronicle.com)
18 points by drjohnson 11y ago|1 comments
51.
Anti-Education by Nietzsche, and why mainstream culture does our best thinking(theguardian.com)
54 points by drjohnson 11y ago|29 comments
52.
15th Century Almanacs Online(britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk)
11 points by drjohnson 11y ago|0 comments
53.
Lord Byron: A Public Man(laphamsquarterly.org)
25 points by drjohnson 11y ago|2 comments
54.
Rimbaud in the Alps (1878)(theparisreview.org)
8 points by drjohnson 11y ago|0 comments
55.
Nabokov in Utah(theamericanscholar.org)
31 points by drjohnson 11y ago|5 comments
56.
The Comparable Max Beerbohm(newyorker.com)
4 points by drjohnson 11y ago|0 comments
57.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “Eureka” and the Machinery of the Universe(theparisreview.org)
12 points by drjohnson 11y ago|0 comments
58.
Robert Louis Stevenson Was a Sickly Man with a Robust Imagination(neh.gov)
30 points by drjohnson 11y ago|9 comments
59.
My Mother's Yiddish(theamericanscholar.org)
47 points by drjohnson 11y ago|19 comments
60.
On Edgar Allan Poe(nybooks.com)
27 points by drjohnson 11y ago|3 comments

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