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“In literature dreams often serve to bring the impossible into everyday life, like mist through a crack in the wall.” j.mp/16c51LR
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde begins with a bad dream; for Kafka’s Gregor, it is real life that proves a nightmare. j.mp/16c51LR
The Unanswerable Question: Alberto Manguel on dreams in literature, from Hawthorne and Borges to Alice in Wonderland j.mp/16c51LR
Good writing introduces novelty and nuance, but readers eliminate them. bit.ly/10J11cn (via @nybooks)
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For the questions that Obama should be answering about drones in today's speech, see my article in @nybooks: trib.al/vXJDOtA
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“If time is like a river, are we standing on the bank watching, or are we bobbing along?” James Gleick: j.mp/10ncfYP
“Sometimes a steeple is not just a steeple.” Martin Filler on Ibsen’s architect: j.mp/Zed0F4
For Richard Wagner’s 200th birthday, a #longread: Wagner & Politics by the late philosopher Bernard Williams j.mp/12WGS5Z
A Light in the Dark: a short story by @NathanielRich j.mp/10lsLbN
Chip-pan fires (from deep-fat-frying potatoes) account for 50 deaths and 4,600 injuries in the UK each year. j.mp/11T5IYY
The Saga of the Flaming Zucchini: Jenny Uglow on Bee Wilson’s history of cookery j.mp/11T5IYY
On understanding autism, and “the danger of rigid predictions about one’s mind and its potential” j.mp/1075zKL
"would 250 female Fortune 500 CEOs make a big difference to American women?" Maybe not so much, Sheryl Sandberg. nybooks.com/articles/archi…
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“He is not college material,” sniffed Jerome Groopman’s fifth grade teacher. His father disagreed: “He has shpilkes.” j.mp/1075zKL
Dürer had seventeen siblings, and only two made it to adulthood.@nybooks nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/…
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No, Humbert Humbert isn't meant to "read" Jewish. My God. Stop it. nybooks.com/articles/archi…
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Let's Get Creative And Redefine The Meaning Of Religion n.pr/ZbgPe9
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Who was Tamerlan Tsarnaev and what was he doing in Russia prior to the Boston bombings? @ccaryl offers clues. bit.ly/16Roe4w
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“Going to Tehran could have been a useful book but it is buried in heavy doses of one-sided drivel.” j.mp/10IRGl0
A long read about the Warhol Foundation's legal troubles with its authentication board: bit.ly/13FR3KU
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Ask Sue Halpern Anything: Our Special Relationship With Dogs dlvr.it/3PHFvv
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For Nabokov, writing was a chess match, the reader trying to predict his next move. Triumph lay in outwitting him. j.mp/19EHJdA
“Anyone who is among us today,” Dürer wrote, “may be buried tomorrow.” This was not a poetic conceit. j.mp/10JQfqJ
Albrecht Dürer drew this self portrait in 1484, when he was thirteen. pic.twitter.com/VE6EdDtHoZ
Andrew Butterfield on “the most comprehensive and revelatory show about Dürer to be held in America in over 40 years” j.mp/10JQfqJ
Nixon isn't being replicated now -- because he can't be: bit.ly/10MJfWV
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We started the NYRblog on Tumblr in 2009. First post: Ronald Dworkin on the Citizens United case j.mp/1129PAb
Krugman, right 4 years ago, right today. Turns out they don't give those Nobel prize thingies out to just anyone ht.ly/l80jn
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David Shulman's account of classical Kerala drama. Read last year. So good that I reread it last week. nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/…
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Elizabeth Drew: Why Obama Is Not Nixon j.mp/1886Gze
Can Shell be stopped? Subhankar Banerjee on drilling in the Arctic and its environmental impact: j.mp/17GATHU
Wildest story I have reported in awhile "Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia" salon.com/2013/05/17/rev…
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"What Nabokov is actually doing in Lolita is deliberately drawing on all manner of anti-Semitic propaganda" bit.ly/111ZVsf
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.@pareene rips apart Michael Kinsley's "Austerity is still a Good Thing because we Deserve It" (and spinach) argument slnm.us/3q2hjia
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“This is not a book that belongs on the shelf alongside Gloria Steinem. It belongs in the business section.” #LeanIn j.mp/YMXrBE
Amazing @nybooks piece on Sandberg's "Lean In" by @anneapplebaum, absolutely worth reading. Really. bit.ly/15T3pq3
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Lee Iacocca, Jack Welch, or Sheryl Sandberg? A quiz: j.mp/YMXrBE
One problem with Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’: motivational slogans are almost always useless in real-life situations. j.mp/YMXrBE
Simic: Anyone who says more guns make us safer is either profiting from dead children or living in a fool’s paradise. j.mp/13xCaOd
I do not approve as "austerians" as a noun. That should be reserved for adherents of Paul Auster. Just sayin' goo.gl/TwI3n
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On average seven people are shot and three people are killed by guns every hour in the United States. j.mp/13xCaOd
Fascinating piece about authenticating Warhols and a disturbance in the Warhol force: nybooks.com/articles/archi…
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That moment when a DC pundit embodies every caricatured trope of Paul Krugman's imagination: goo.gl/AZOim
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Andy Warhol and His Foundation: The Questions by Richard Dorment j.mp/144IHze
Charles Simic takes on the NRA’s nonsense on guns j.mp/13xCaOd
Paul Krugman on the false claims for austerity, and the danger of seeing macroeconomics as a morality play j.mp/10M6Snd
Poet Robert Fitzgerald gave only three grades in his course on writing verse: Not Bad, Not Too Bad, Not Good. j.mp/181sUmt