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March 31, 2013

Silly Like Us: W.H. Auden

March 31, 2013/ Stephen Akey

Coming of age after World War I, Auden took the alienation of his generation and sharpened it to a special keenness; he transformed his disaffected modernism into an immortal body of work that still challenges today.

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Poetry
April 2013, dante, Freud, Goethe, Poetry, Stephen Akey, T-S- Eliot, Virgil, W- H- Auden
August 31, 2012

From the Archives: A Voyeur in the Archives

August 31, 2012/ Max Ross

"Ellis, Leyner, Leavitt, Franzen, Powers…their fictions reduce to complaints and self-pity. Dostoevski has balls.” This and other gleanings from a trip to the David Foster Wallace archives.

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August 31, 2012/ Max Ross/
Fiction
david foster wallace, Don DeLillo, Dostoevsky, fiction, James Joyce, john updike, Kafka, Max Ross, September 2012, Virgil
March 31, 2012

Downright Rude: Reading Catullus

March 31, 2012/ Stephen Akey

The raw sexuality of the Catullus' love poems keeps them alive even today, and the things he implied about Julius Caesar STILL can't be repeated in polite conversation - how do we deal with this young man who's always making us feel just a bit uncomfortable?

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March 31, 2012/ Stephen Akey/
Poetry
April 2012, fiction, homer, Peter Green, Poetry, Stephen Akey, Virgil
February 28, 2011

Out of Sorts

February 28, 2011/ Trevor Ross

Books have been with us for thousands of years, and books about books for very nearly that long. The world of books teems with themes, and in the latest massive Oxford Companion, that world receives a bestiary with hopes of being definitive.

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Book Review, homer, March 2011, Oxford University Press, Virgil
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