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When did it become embarrassing to like classical music? When it became thought of as an elite art ..read more
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A tidy lawn, a model home, good local schools — suburbia lured Americans by the millions. But it was a trap ..read more
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Animals mock efforts to classify and master them. Our formidable opponents include coral, rattlesnakes, stingrays, and raccoons ..read more
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Leonard Cohen was in a dark place: He hated the hippie scene, poetry, and folk music. Then the Yom Kippur war broke out ..read more
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“Nostalgia” was coined in 1688 as a painful, even deadly, form of homesickness. It still has a bad reputation ..read more
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Descartes’s stove. Comfort is key to thought, and so the maxim “I think, therefore I am,” may be re-written: “I think in a stove-heated room, therefore I am ..read more
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A homogeneous Harlem Renaissance? The period’s art depicts pool halls, jazz clubs, formal dinners, and social groups at odds with one another ..read more
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A provocation: What if our world is not enlightened at all, but a product of the Enlightenment’s failure ..read more
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“I was born for opposition.” Lord Byron’s scandalous affairs and flouting of convention led to his becoming a social outcast ..read more
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We read the classics but ignore much of what readers once enjoyed: forgeries, pseudotranslations, and other ephemera from the dustbin of literary history ..read more