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What We Knew Without Knowing (newyorker.com)

23 hours ago | apollinaire | newyorker.com | frontpage

1

In the Matter of the Commas (theamericanscholar.org)

2 days ago | apollinaire | theamericanscholar.org | frontpage

22

Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command (washingtonpost.com)

2 weeks ago | apollinaire | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

1

The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman Review – The Science of Imagination (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | apollinaire | theguardian.com | newest

2

Review of Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant (newyorker.com)

3 months ago | apollinaire | newyorker.com | newest

34

Why did so many mid-century designers make children's books? (2022) (aiga.org)

4 months ago | apollinaire | aiga.org | frontpage

2

Alan Hollinghurst's English Underground (newstatesman.com)

4 months ago | apollinaire | newstatesman.com | newest

2

Beatrix Potter's Quiet Rebellion (neh.gov)

4 months ago | apollinaire | neh.gov | frontpage

1

The Masterpiece Hannah Arendt Died Writing (chronicle.com)

4 months ago | apollinaire | chronicle.com | frontpage

1

Margaret Hughes (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | apollinaire | wikipedia.org | newest

4

Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist (historytoday.com)

4 months ago | apollinaire | historytoday.com | frontpage

6

Whose Weil? Simone, Patron Saint of Everyone (thedriftmag.com)

4 months ago | apollinaire | thedriftmag.com | frontpage

1

John Banville on a lifetime in books, bereavement, and the Irish love of words (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | apollinaire | theguardian.com | newest

1

A Case of Fraud (chronicle.com)

4 months ago | apollinaire | chronicle.com | newest

13

A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death (washingtonpost.com)

5 months ago | apollinaire | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

22

How the human brain contends with the strangeness of zero (quantamagazine.org)

6 months ago | apollinaire | quantamagazine.org | best

1

Henri Rochefort and the Origins of French Populism (publicdomainreview.org)

7 months ago | apollinaire | publicdomainreview.org | newest

1

Right-Hegel Meets Left-Hegel (tabletmag.com)

7 months ago | apollinaire | tabletmag.com | frontpage

1

The Enlightenment That Wasn't (davidabell.substack.com)

7 months ago | apollinaire | substack.com | newest

1

Arsy-versy Argy-bargy: How Chaucer remade language (poetryfoundation.org)

8 months ago | apollinaire | poetryfoundation.org | frontpage

22

Poetry was an official Olympic event (smithsonianmag.com)

8 months ago | apollinaire | smithsonianmag.com | best

3

Traces, Clues, and Fiction: Carlo Ginzburg and the Practice of Archaeology (degruyter.com)

8 months ago | apollinaire | degruyter.com | newest

12

Beyond Authenticity: Hannah Arendt's final unfinished work (aeon.co)

9 months ago | apollinaire | aeon.co | best

2

Holy Delmore (tabletmag.com)

9 months ago | apollinaire | tabletmag.com | newest

4

July, 1914 (worldhistory.substack.com)

9 months ago | apollinaire | substack.com | frontpage

1

Kerensky in Hindsight (historytoday.com)

9 months ago | apollinaire | historytoday.com | newest

10

The Last Avant-Garde (lareviewofbooks.org)

9 months ago | apollinaire | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

1

'Written in Water' Review: What Makes a Classic? (wsj.com)

9 months ago | apollinaire | wsj.com | frontpage

3

Alexander Abian (wikipedia.org)

9 months ago | apollinaire | wikipedia.org | frontpage

10

Paper Trails (aeon.co)

9 months ago | apollinaire | aeon.co | best

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James Joyce was a complicated man (thefitzwilliam.com)

10 months ago | apollinaire | thefitzwilliam.com | best

3

Napoleon: An Extraordinary Rendition (2010) (historytoday.com)

10 months ago | apollinaire | historytoday.com | frontpage

1

Painting at Dora (2013) (thebeliever.net)

10 months ago | apollinaire | thebeliever.net | newest

3

All Aquiver: The Decadent Movement (aeon.co)

10 months ago | apollinaire | aeon.co | frontpage

2

The Marriage of True Minds (chronicle.com)

11 months ago | apollinaire | chronicle.com | newest

2

Previsualization for Feature Films (1998) (stagetools.com)

11 months ago | apollinaire | stagetools.com | frontpage

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Why Surrealism Matters: Book review (the-tls.co.uk)

11 months ago | apollinaire | the-tls.co.uk | best

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Why Make Art in the Dark? (aeon.co)

11 months ago | apollinaire | aeon.co | best

1

Modulor (wikipedia.org)

11 months ago | apollinaire | wikipedia.org | newest

1

The Battle for Attention (newyorker.com)

12 months ago | apollinaire | newyorker.com | frontpage

24

Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre (wikipedia.org)

12 months ago | apollinaire | wikipedia.org | best

2

The Rediscovery of a Depression-Era Masterpiece (newyorker.com)

12 months ago | apollinaire | newyorker.com | frontpage

1

Qattara Depression Project (wikipedia.org)

12 months ago | apollinaire | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Measuring the Mobile Body (eurozine.com)

12 months ago | apollinaire | eurozine.com | newest

1

Life at the sad café: Carson McCullers (the-tls.co.uk)

12 months ago | apollinaire | the-tls.co.uk | frontpage

1

A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau's Trench Art (Ca. 1917) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

1

Fourth International Posadist (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | wikipedia.org | newest

10

The Virtue of Slow Writers (themillions.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | themillions.com | frontpage

9

The soul moved the pen, and broke it: Flaubert's emotional style (commonreader.co.uk)

a year ago | apollinaire | commonreader.co.uk | frontpage

26

Surrealism Is 100 (nytimes.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | nytimes.com | best

9

Drinking with Agatha Christie (crimereads.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | crimereads.com | frontpage

5

A memoirist who told everything and repented nothing (newyorker.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | newyorker.com | frontpage

1

From Rubber Soul to Revolver (the-hinternet.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | the-hinternet.com | newest

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Strike at the Knee: Review of the Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 (lrb.co.uk)

a year ago | apollinaire | lrb.co.uk | best

3

The Second Death of Pablo Neruda (newyorker.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | newyorker.com | frontpage

2

Eminem's Boxes of Notes (jillianhess.substack.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | substack.com | newest

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A 13th-century Arabic cookbook reveals the culinary life of al-Andalus (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | atlasobscura.com | best

3

Hooted from the Stage: review of two new books on Keats (lrb.co.uk)

a year ago | apollinaire | lrb.co.uk | frontpage

5

Flaubert versus the World (newrepublic.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | newrepublic.com | frontpage

1

A contemporary poet aims to capture the terror of World War I (commonwealmagazine.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | commonwealmagazine.org | frontpage

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The Life and Times of "The Paris Metro" (theparisreview.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | theparisreview.org | best

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Read the Chronicles of Narnia in Publication Order (2018) (tor.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | tor.com | frontpage

19

There Once Was an Empire (novum.substack.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | substack.com | frontpage

14

Flaubert's letters are as hilarious and humane as his best fiction (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

7

The Two Milan Kunderas (drb.ie)

a year ago | apollinaire | drb.ie | best

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The Birth of the Chapter (chronicle.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | chronicle.com | frontpage

6

'Nuts and Bolts' Review: The Levers That Move the World (wsj.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | wsj.com | frontpage

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Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure (theguardian.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | theguardian.com | best

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The Low Down on the Greatest Dictionary Collection in the World (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

3

'The Revolutionary Temper' by Robert Darnton Review (historytoday.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | historytoday.com | frontpage

1

Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

9

Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer (yalereview.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | yalereview.org | frontpage

26

Whither philosophy? (aeon.co)

a year ago | apollinaire | aeon.co | best

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"I cannot wait to possess you": Reading 18th century letters for the first time (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | arstechnica.com | frontpage

4

'Weird Tales' Review: Ghoulishness, a Literary View (wsj.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | wsj.com | frontpage

1

Hilary Mantel's writing stretched beyond Wolf Hall (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

5

How to Exclaim (themillions.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | themillions.com | frontpage

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How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain (laphamsquarterly.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | laphamsquarterly.org | best

2

Detective McDavitt and the Curious Case of the Clown Wedgefish (hakaimagazine.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | hakaimagazine.com | frontpage

4

The making of EP Thompson (newstatesman.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | newstatesman.com | frontpage

16

Shocks to the system: Don DeLillo’s novels of the cold war and its aftermath (bookforum.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | bookforum.com | best

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Morning Star: Harald Voetmann’s novel reaches for the stars (thebaffler.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | thebaffler.com | newest

8

The Woman Behind Borges (thedial.world)

a year ago | apollinaire | thedial.world | frontpage

3

Precision Medicine and Its Imprecise History (2020) (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | apollinaire | mit.edu | frontpage

12

Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss (newstatesman.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | newstatesman.com | best

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Feuding twin sisters popularized the American advice column (laphamsquarterly.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | laphamsquarterly.org | best

4

Hold the Line: As telephony grew, so did a workforce of switchboard operators (jstor.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | jstor.org | frontpage

91

Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin (thebaffler.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | thebaffler.com | best

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Stronger Magic: Harry Fainlight was an overshadowed Beat visionary (poetryfoundation.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | poetryfoundation.org | frontpage

7

In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

1

Trespassing on Edith Wharton (theparisreview.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | theparisreview.org | frontpage

15

The Birth of the Self (hudsonreview.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | hudsonreview.com | frontpage

120

A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress (publicbooks.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | publicbooks.org | best

4

The Last Cosmopolitan: Elias Canetti’s 20th Century (thenation.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | thenation.com | frontpage

1

Marvellous Moderns: The Brothers Perrault (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Paul Linebarger wrote science fiction as Cordwainer Smith (2018) (jhu.edu)

a year ago | apollinaire | jhu.edu | frontpage

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Caproni Ca.60 (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | apollinaire | wikipedia.org | frontpage

4

The New New Reading Environment (nplusonemag.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | nplusonemag.com | frontpage

10

A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist (thenation.com)

a year ago | apollinaire | thenation.com | frontpage

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An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged (lithub.com)

2 years ago | apollinaire | lithub.com | best