June 28, 2016
Boswell’s Jubilee
Against the backdrop of the 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee, James Boswell’s willpower is tested.
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June 28, 2016
Against the backdrop of the 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee, James Boswell’s willpower is tested.
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A house haunted by guilt, the everyday use of critical theory, and arguing about poetry.
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A forgotten artist gets her due, the finances of Jorge Luis Borges, and getting in shape the medieval way.
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Cleaning up Yellowstone, the secrets of Lord Byron, and getting liberated in the 1970s.
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American superstitions, FBI’s Darwin hunt, and Jane Austen’s reality.
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The strangeness and audacity of W.E.B. Du Bois and his work.
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Beauties of the seventeenth century, a new look at the Kamasutra, and why the suburbs made Americans sick.
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