Sedition, Complacency, and the Role of Today's Museums

My Esteemed Readers, one recent morning I found myself taking a detour through the Hirshhorn Museum while finding a new route from Constitution Avenue. Once inside, I decided to peruse the galleries in order to make certain these pop culture images are keeping the button-down...

Oriental Origins of Post-modernism

"It is interesting to reread Ihab Hassan in this regard. Hassan's first book, after all, was called The Literature of Silence (1967), and made the case for a "new literature" written in the wake of Dachau and Hiroshima, a literature whose "total rejection of...

Woods Lot

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