What We’re Loving: Myth, Legend, Umlauts
A late-night note-to-self scribbled on the flyleaf of Rosemary Hill’s Stonehenge: “Why are you enraged by the idea of progress?” This short work of intellectual history—tracing theories of the...
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Photo: The Stonehenge Stone Circle, via Flickr George Saunders is the first to win the new £40,000 Folio Prize. Joe McGinniss is dead, at seventy-one. Illustrations from international editions of Don...
View ArticleAubrey, Illustrated
Last November, New York Review Books published Ruth Scurr’s John Aubrey: My Own Life. Aubrey, who died in 1697, is remembered for his Brief Lives, a collection of short biographies with a candor and...
View ArticleWhat We’re Loving: Myth, Legend, Umlauts
A late-night note-to-self scribbled on the flyleaf of Rosemary Hill’s Stonehenge: “Why are you enraged by the idea of progress?” This short work of intellectual history—tracing theories of the...
View ArticleListening to Stonehenge, and Other News
Photo: The Stonehenge Stone Circle, via Flickr George Saunders is the first to win the new £40,000 Folio Prize. Joe McGinniss is dead, at seventy-one. Illustrations from international editions of Don...
View ArticleAubrey, Illustrated
Last November, New York Review Books published Ruth Scurr’s John Aubrey: My Own Life. Aubrey, who died in 1697, is remembered for his Brief Lives, a collection of short biographies with a candor and...
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