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Category Archive: dog days classics

John Le Carré, Patron Saint Of Disillusioned Academics

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Le Carré elevated quit lit into something sublime and deserving of literary awards, unlike my overwrought internet Weltschmertz.

Jason Tebbe October 28, 2020 academia, Academic job market, Cold War, dog days classics, fiction, foreign policy, literature

Your Earwhig Is Truly Magnificent, Sir

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Like discovering free verse, punk rock, or Prince, Guided by Voices offered the awesome realization that you could literally do whatever the fuck you want and it might actually be good.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 22, 2020 1990s, dog days classics, indie rock, music, Ohio

How a Film Flop from 1991 Explains 2020

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Until the End of the World, Wim Wenders’s doomed epic, was shockingly prescient about America’s equally doomed 21st century.

Jason Tebbe August 21, 2020 1990s, dog days classics, film, media studies, technology

A Screaming Comes Across the Sky: Re-Reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

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Writer Murray Browne looks back at Pynchon’s novel, once heralded by critics as “bonecrushingly dense,” in light of the age of Qanon.

Murray Browne August 10, 2020 Cold War, dog days classics, fiction, World War II

Where Were You in ‘73?

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In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today’s political reaction.

Jason Tebbe July 16, 2020 1970s, conservatism, dog days classics, Donald Trump, film, New Right, Vietnam

Shelter in Place: Reading Bachelard During the Quarantine

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Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 classic The Poetics of Space offers a fresh way of thinking about our increasingly cloistered existences.

Alex Sayf Cummings March 21, 2020 architecture, coronavirus, dog days classics, Housing, literature, space, technology, theory

Dostoevsky’s Underground Man: Prophet or 19th-Century Incel?

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There are many, many embarrassing photos of me during my teen years, but one of the biggest was […]

Jason Tebbe August 19, 2019 dog days classics, fiction, literature, radical politics, Russia

Distant Lessons from Algeria, 1954-1962

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Alistair Horne’s book reminds us that political violence thrives on the exclusion of moderates — to everyone’s detriment.

Murray Browne August 1, 2019 Africa, book reviews, dog days classics, France, politics, radical politics, terrorism

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