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On angels, demons, and artificial intelligence
I have spent the past few months teaching an undergraduate philosophy seminar on angels and demons, a rather unusual topic for my secular department and…
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Dhananjay Jagannathan
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on Narnia
imagined countries and our true home
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Tara Isabella Burton
on the Muppets
notes on nineties romanticism
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Tara Isabella Burton
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on the dinner party
and its apparent decline
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Dhananjay Jagannathan
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on the greatest Christmas movie of all time
reflections on Whit Stillman's Metropolitan (1990)
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Tara Isabella Burton
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on trying to write a novel
Symposium on the Novel: Part I
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Țara Isabella Burton
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On the teacher
I. Nearly two decades ago – it is astonishing to me to mark the years – I sat in a classroom at the University of Texas at Austin, at an oval seminar…
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Dhananjay Jagannathan
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on unaffected pleasure
how we lost confidence in the value of fiction (Symposium on the Novel: Part V)
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Trevor Cribben Merrill
3
on recognition
or, what I learned from Sweeney Todd
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Tara Isabella Burton
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on two adulterous women
what to make of Emma Bovary & Anna Karenina (Symposium on the Novel: Part IV)
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Țara Isabella Burton
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On the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and the two faces of desire
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Țara Isabella Burton
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on (unironically) loving dogs
Symposium on Animals: Part II
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Tara Isabella Burton
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