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January 31, 2013

Do You Feel Like a Hero Yet?

January 31, 2013/ Phillip A. Lobo

Has there ever been a time in American history when the gun-and-violence-obsessed subtext of video games was more problematic? Special Ops: The Line puts you in the place of a grizzled, gun-wielding expert - but it doesn't necessarily want you to feel good about that.

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January 31, 2013/ Phillip A. Lobo/
Arts & Life
February 2013, Phillip A- Lobo, Video game review, video games
January 31, 2013

Epstein’s Kaleidoscope

January 31, 2013/ Michael Johnson

Joseph Epstein has a cult following as a sharp-tongued critic and essayist. His latest collection showcases his love of words and ideas as well as his caustic wit.

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January 31, 2013/ Michael Johnson/
Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
February 2013, fiction, literary criticism, Michael Johnson
January 31, 2013

Back, Back, Down the Old Ways of Time: D. H. Lawrence in Italy

January 31, 2013/ Luciano Mangiafico

Year after year, D. H.Lawrence found love, lust, and gainful employment in Italy - and through the strange alchemy of the place, he also found the inspirations for some of his most enduring works of art.

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January 31, 2013/ Luciano Mangiafico/
Arts & Life, Politics & History
d-h- lawrence, February 2013, fiction, Luciano Mangiafico
January 31, 2013

We've Been with Lizzie All Along

January 31, 2013/ Rohan Maitzen & Steve Donoghue

A conversation about the enduring appeal of Pride & Prejudice.

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January 31, 2013/ Rohan Maitzen & Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Arts & Life, Romance
February 2013, fiction, George Eliot, henry james, Mark Twain, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, rohan maitzen, Steve Donoghue
December 31, 2012

Tea with the Pushkins in Brussels

December 31, 2012/ Michael Johnson

Say “Evgeny Onegin” to any educated Russian and you will trigger the first stanza or two of Pushkin's great novel in verse. Now Russia's national poet is finally coming into his own in the West as well.

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December 31, 2012/ Michael Johnson/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
fiction, January 2013, literary criticism, Michael Johnson, Vladimir Nabokov
December 31, 2012

Entred in a Spacious Court

December 31, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Ben Jonson said that the once wealthy and acclaimed Edmund Spenser died "for want of bread"; a new biography tries to disentangle myth from fact, and to make the case for the great poet's relevance today

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December 31, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life, Politics & History
Biography Review, History review, January 2013, Steve Donoghue
December 31, 2012

The Creative Subject

December 31, 2012/ Open Letters Monthly

A conversation with cover artist Aaron Angello

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December 31, 2012/ Open Letters Monthly/
Arts & Life
January 2013
December 31, 2012

Being Jonathan Harker: recollections of The Dead English

December 31, 2012/ Steve Brachmann

Not every actor gets the plum role of vampire hunter and romantic lead Jonathan Harker. Steve Brachmann reflects on his part in the Dracula-inspired rock musical The Dead English

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December 31, 2012/ Steve Brachmann/
Fiction, Arts & Life
Bram Stoker, Dracula, fiction, January 2013, theater
December 31, 2012

How the Higgs Streams in the Firmament

December 31, 2012/ Anthony Lock

What do Christopher Marlowe and the newly discovered Higgs boson particle have in common? Anthony Lock explores the connection, by way of unified fields.

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December 31, 2012/ Anthony Lock/
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Arts & Life
January 2013, literary criticism, Poetry
December 15, 2012

Charles Rosen, 1927-2012

December 15, 2012/ Greg Waldmann

Open Letters mourns the loss of Charles Rosen, pianist, scholar, teacher and critic.

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December 15, 2012/ Greg Waldmann/
Arts & Life
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, classical music, December 2012, elliott carter, greg waldmann, music
November 30, 2012

Entitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess

November 30, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?

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November 30, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Anthony Burgess, December 2012, fiction, gore vidal, Hamlet, historical fiction, James Joyce, literary criticism, Michael Moorcock, Robert Graves, Salman Rushdie, shakespeare, Steve Donoghue, virginia woolf
November 30, 2012

Sharing A Cab

November 30, 2012/ Kennen McCarthy

Give Anthony Burgess a check and he’d write anything, even a Time-Life picture book. Which doesn’t mean that his 1976 guide to New York is anything less than fascinating.

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November 30, 2012/ Kennen McCarthy/
Arts & Life
Anthony Burgess, Book Review, December 2012, Kennen McCarthy
November 30, 2012

Fate’s Engine

November 30, 2012/ Adam Golaski

Commissioned to translate Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Anthony Burgess decided on a few changes to the text. What were they, and what do they teach us about fate?

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November 30, 2012/ Adam Golaski/
Arts & Life
Adam Golaski, Anthony Burgess, December 2012, theater
November 30, 2012

Too Much Signal

November 30, 2012/ Jeffrey Eaton

Nate Silver is currently enjoying his status as that unlikeliest of people, the celebrity statistician. Does his bestseller The Signal and the Noise live up to its carefully calculated expectations?

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November 30, 2012/ Jeffrey Eaton/
Arts & Life, Politics & History
Book Review, December 2012, Jeffrey Eaton
November 30, 2012

Ou-Boum

November 30, 2012/ Victoria Olsen

"I knew my trip would mean an encounter with Adela Quested": Victoria Olsen reflects on what she found, and what was lost in translation, when she travelled to India with E. M. Forster on her mind.

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November 30, 2012/ Victoria Olsen/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
December 2012, E-M- Forster, fiction, Leonard Woolf, literary criticism, Victoria Olsen
October 31, 2012

The Ghosts of Monmouth County

October 31, 2012/ Steve Danziger

Bossophilia: The idolization of Bruce Springsteen that comes from midlife nostalgia and a fear of dying. Steve Danziger confronts the phenomenon, and a new biography.

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October 31, 2012/ Steve Danziger/
Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Biography Review, Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, November 2012, Steve Danziger
October 31, 2012

The Power Season

October 31, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

As Americans go to the polls this month to elect a president, some recent biographies examine the lives of five very different men who once held the office.

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October 31, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life, Politics & History
Book Review, Harlow Giles Unger, John Quincy Adams, November 2012, Steve Donoghue
October 31, 2012

Never-Neverland

October 31, 2012/ Max Ross

The fairy tale has been through several metamorphoses; the next might result in its extinction. Max Ross reviews Jack Zipes's cultural history of the genre.

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October 31, 2012/ Max Ross/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, Max Ross, November 2012, Poetry
October 31, 2012

Most Sovereign Master

October 31, 2012/ Luciano Mangiafico

"Although virtually all subjects were still religious, their humanity was brought to the fore, emphasizing that God, in the form of Jesus Christ, was made man and that He, and the Virgin Mary, and saints, like us, had human features"

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October 31, 2012/ Luciano Mangiafico/
Arts & Life
Book Review, dante, John Ruskin, Luciano Mangiafico, November 2012
October 31, 2012

Fright Unseen

October 31, 2012/ Phillip A. Lobo

Once upon a time, the hive-mind of the Internet set to work creating a modern-day bogey man who lurks in plain sight - and so "Slender Man," the dark mirror image of "Where's Waldo," was born

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October 31, 2012/ Phillip A. Lobo/
Arts & Life
November 2012, Phillip A- Lobo, Video game review, video games
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