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Julie Greicius: The Last Book(s) I Loved, The Lost City of Z and All the Names
Years ago, when I was an archaeologist, I learned my favorite concept in the broader field of anthropology, or any field for that matter: “imperialist nostalgia.” It’s the yearning we feel for...
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“The Notebook is the collected entries from 87-year-old Saramago’s blog, O Caderno de Saramago. The book, ‘which has already appeared in Portuguese and Spanish, lashes out against George W. Bush, Tony...
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Triumph and Oblivion
José Saramago’s posthumous novel The Elephant’s Journey is an exploration of the self—and a gift to his readers.Emerging from the abundance of this season’s fall fiction is Solomon the elephant. A gift...
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Manual of Painting and Calligraphy, by Jose Saramago
Initially published in Portugal in 1976, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is one of Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago’s first novels. He was fifty-four when he wrote it, and had spent most of life, as...
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What to Read When Things Go Nuclear
This week, American politics got ugly (uglier?), when the Republicans used to the “Nuclear Option” to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Then, our president deployed sixty missiles in Syria...
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What to Read When the World Is Ending
We are only five days away from the midterm elections. Five weeks ago, Christine Blasey Ford testified in front the Senate and the country to her certainty that Brett Kavanaugh had attempted to...
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