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1. The Origins of Yiddish (2014) (tabletmag.com)
71 points by drjohnson 10 months ago | past | 107 comments
2. Ossian, the ‘Homer of the North’, the greatest literary hoax (2016) (independent.co.uk)
53 points by drjohnson on Jan 25, 2024 | past | 27 comments
3. Chateaubriand, the Romantic Classicist (antigonejournal.com)
27 points by drjohnson on Dec 8, 2023 | past | 7 comments
4. 'The Waste Land' Reviewed (1923) (theguardian.com)
35 points by drjohnson on Oct 21, 2022 | past | 12 comments
5. The Lost Library of John Milton (cam.ac.uk)
15 points by drjohnson on Sept 13, 2022 | past
6. On Invisibility (threepennyreview.com)
14 points by drjohnson on Sept 6, 2022 | past | 3 comments
7. Who owns Parliament? (whoownsengland.org)
137 points by drjohnson on May 31, 2022 | past | 198 comments
8. Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks (nytimes.com)
142 points by drjohnson on May 24, 2022 | past | 90 comments
9. The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky (newyorker.com)
118 points by drjohnson on Jan 3, 2022 | past | 79 comments
10. “Don Quixote” as a manual for living (octavian.substack.com)
71 points by drjohnson on Sept 13, 2021 | past | 79 comments
11. Fit for a Queen (laphamsquarterly.org)
19 points by drjohnson on April 29, 2021 | past | 7 comments
12. Fakery and the Russian Avant-Garde (apollo-magazine.com)
10 points by drjohnson on Jan 20, 2021 | past | 2 comments
13. Rebecca West: opinionated, impertinent, impossible (2000) (theglobeandmail.com)
6 points by drjohnson on Nov 21, 2020 | past
14. Impossible Word: Toward a Poetics of Aphasia (poetryfoundation.org)
27 points by drjohnson on Oct 12, 2020 | past | 1 comment
15. Flight of the Fire Ants (edgelands.substack.com)
38 points by drjohnson on July 7, 2020 | past | 7 comments
16. On Pandemic and Literature (themillions.com)
20 points by drjohnson on March 16, 2020 | past | 4 comments
17. Commonplace books and the illusions of memory (laphamsquarterly.org)
14 points by drjohnson on Dec 10, 2019 | past
18. Crusoe at the Crossroads (thenewatlantis.com)
5 points by drjohnson on Nov 12, 2019 | past | 2 comments
19. Consider the Hedgehog (lrb.co.uk)
25 points by drjohnson on Oct 25, 2019 | past | 6 comments
20. The Ebbing Language (poetryfoundation.org)
31 points by drjohnson on Sept 26, 2019 | past | 3 comments
21. Literature and Economics (lareviewofbooks.org)
7 points by drjohnson on Aug 28, 2019 | past
22. Semantic Drift (harpers.org)
59 points by drjohnson on July 19, 2019 | past | 59 comments
23. The Location of Plates in a Book (folger.edu)
37 points by drjohnson on June 12, 2019 | past | 2 comments
24. Big Talkers (nybooks.com)
11 points by drjohnson on May 13, 2019 | past | 2 comments
25. Harper Lee's Lost True Crime Book (theguardian.com)
29 points by drjohnson on May 9, 2019 | past | 8 comments
26. [flagged] What Does the Word “Liberal” Mean? (lawliberty.org)
18 points by drjohnson on April 22, 2019 | past | 28 comments
27. How Robert Louis Stevenson came to live, die, and be buried in Samoa (2018) (weeklystandard.com)
46 points by drjohnson on March 18, 2019 | past | 17 comments
28. Theophrastus’ Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior (city-journal.org)
13 points by drjohnson on Feb 7, 2019 | past | 1 comment
29. The contested world of literary estates (newstatesman.com)
11 points by drjohnson on Jan 6, 2019 | past | 2 comments
30. T.S. Eliot, Populist (firstthings.com)
41 points by drjohnson on Nov 12, 2018 | past | 37 comments

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