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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for…
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but…
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small,…
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on…
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be…
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The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level,…
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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
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