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The Terrible Affliction of Beauty

I imagine that the discussion between novelist Yukio Mishima and philosopher Roger Scruton takes place at the Yumeji Café in Kyoto, just down the hill from the celebrated Kiyomizudera Temple.…
AUTHOR:Robert Fay
PUBLISHED: June 12, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2205 words)

A Commencement Address From the Slapstick President

The commencement of Buster Keaton took place one year after my own. I returned to school for the occasion. There he was, up in front, somehow, someway managing not to injure himself. Of all the…
PUBLISHED: June 11, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1732 words)

Diving into the Shallows | Full Stop

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsNicholas Carr [W.W. Norton, 2010] Luminous AirplanesPaul La Farge [Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2011] A novel can’t make toast. A novel…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2706 words)

The Drunkalogues

In the rooms of AA, recovery narratives save lives. In literature, they do something else.It occurs daily hourly in some places: people packed into church basements, listening to strangers…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3241 words)
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