"A portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom."
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Mikhail Lermontov
29 April 2025
Why I Care So Much About Anti-Semitism
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About twenty years ago, in a graduate English seminar at George Washington University, a presenter began her lecture on feminism with a seri...
18 December 2018
The Sail / Парус by Mikhail Lermontov / Михаил Лермонтов (1832)
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A solitary sail whitens The blue fog of the sea!.. What does it seek in distant countries? What is forsaken in native territory?.. ...
08 September 2018
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Hands off the loot!); Top 10 French Gangster films
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French cinema has contributed some of the most audacious and groundbreaking submissions to the gangster film genre. In France, any disc...
23 May 2018
My Life with Philip Roth
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My introduction to the incomparable world of Philip Roth came as a primal nineteen year old at the University of Maryland in the fa...
14 May 2018
Death of Stalin
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Years after the Good Doctor of Gonzo Journalism Hunter S. Thompson famously covered George McGovern's doomed 1972 Presidential camp...
31 March 2018
Top 10 British Gangster Movies
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From the cockney accents to the sleazily inventive insults, and of course using cunt to describe just about everyone and every thi...
28 February 2017
When Facts Don't Matter, Make Them Laugh
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Debates by their very nature are contentious. Political debates probably more so than most. Just tune in to a UK House of Commons deba...
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