Jacob Marley

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein returned time and again to The Golden Bough, often enough that his commentaries have been compiled as Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, edited by Rush Rhees, originally published in 1967, with the English edition following in more...

“Have you spent a good part of your writing life getting even?” Gass "Yes...Yes"

In the 1970s, Nixon and Kissinger had to pay lip service to peace and disarmament, not just to silence the antiwar protesters, but to satisfy the ‘establishment’ against which Nixon railed and to which Kissinger reported. Today, the only way more...

“It is as if he had spent his entire life wondering what he looked like, without ever discovering there are such things as mirrors. A naked man among a multitude who are dressed. A mind living in sin with the more...

At a surrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara the man from nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat. A riot ensued wrecked the theater. AndrÈ Breton expelled Tristan Tzara from more...

“Here comes a beautiful one, attaché case and all, the day-is-done resentful look and the . . . shoes-how they shine!-and what the hell are these beatnik ninnies—and Lois plugs him in the old marshmallow and he goes streaming and more...

“Colum McCann meets with Michael Ondaatje at a very public fireplace.”

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