“Between the political mentality and the pure intellect there are inevitable differences. The political mind seeks to dominate the relative or the accidental, as the navigator, expert in winds and the…
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Arpino, Cicero’s birthplace, is about 100 kilometers southeast of Rome.These studies [of literature] are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort o…
“The French critic Albert Thibaudet proposed in one of his books on the novel a distinction between two kinds of reader: the liseur and the lecteur. I do not know whether a similar differentiating nua…
Photo by Leiada Krozjhen / Unsplash“People who love books find it difficult to get along without them, but millions in the war-devastated areas today are forced to live, work, and study with practical…
A Sufi in Ecstasy in a Landscape, Iran, Isfahan, circa 1650–1660. The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, LA County Museum of Art “Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980) has presente…
Photo by Erin Doering on Unsplash “After extensive renovations and the repair of bomb damage incurred during World War II, the famous Reading Room of the British Museum, London, has been reopened. Fi…
Paz receiving the 1982 Neustadt Prize from University of Oklahoma president William Banowsky “I wonder—once more, now, when everything seems about to go up in flame again—if there is a place for a po…
Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale (2017) / Courtesy of IMDB “When Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale appeared in 1986, readers regarded it as interesting science fictio…
Leonid Pasternak, Boris beside the Baltic at Mereküla (1910), oil on canvas In August 2021 University of Oklahoma alumnus Ron K. Jones donated a letter that he had received in 1959 from…
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