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Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism—James Joyce's Ulysses, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—a hundred years on.
László Krasznahorkai’s latest novel reflects on the power of the surveillance state through the perspective of a librarian who wishes to lock up all books.
The celebrated novelist treated the past seriously, depicting its psychological complexity and drawing out its present-day political implications.
In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
On the first English translation of Wittgenstein's early private notebooks.
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