Dostoevsky is too Christian for a secular age and too secular for Christendom.
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Kissinger the scholar studied power. Kissinger the statesman acquired power, guarded it, and wielded it.
An unfinished fiction is a memento mori.
Could it be otherwise? Probably not, at least at the moment.
I remember hearing the news and thinking that this was going to end badly for everyone. I had no idea just how bad things would get.
The special challenge of presenting a poet whose work is neither new nor widely known.
Memories are important because—and when—they are selective, and few.
Could we ban cell phone photography in museums and at performances?
Much of what we know is unspeakable, and language is but one expressive medium.
Consider another problem of motivation in the house of fiction: why characters write.