Christa Wolf, the exemplary writer and dissident from the expired dictatorship of East Germany, was living in Santa Monica in 1992-93, aged 64, working on a novel and conducting a characteristically “ruthless self-examination” about holding onto a belief in the unrealized possibilities of East Germany. READ MORE >>
Was That the Way It Was?
A Mere Jonah
OPENING MY COPY of Tropic of Cancer to a random page, I am confronted with passages like these: “You’re cancer and delirium,” she said over the phone the other day. She’s got it now, the cancer and delirium, and soon you’ll have to pick the scabs. Her veins are bursting, I tell you, and your talk is all sawdust. No matter how much you piss away you’ll never plug up the holes. ***** READ MORE >>
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In the Name of the Father: How College Sports Came To Be Above the Law
The Grand Programme
This article is a contribution to ‘Liberalism and Occupy Wall Street,’ A TNR Symposium. Click here to read other contributions to the series. READ MORE >>
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Standardizing
Consider three recent items from the awful universe of human rights violations. READ MORE >>
