Namedropping

NamedroppingCandid snapshots in prose of literary and other figuresranging from Aldous Huxley and Isaac Bashevis Singer to Faye Dunaway and Hunter S. Thompsonwhom the author encountered during four decades as a working writer and journalist. In the course of the same old race I find myself writing about knowing some people how fame seems to set some people apart from us, once known: I was astonished by Ernest Hemingway's small, weak handshake when we were

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An initial step in the development of a religious topography for the zone encompassing Persepolis and Naqs-e Rostam

They may also act as alternative hosts for disease and insect pests and increase production costs and lower land value

and conference papers by John Onians

perusing novels and histories

can serve as a critique of existing political realities while gesturing toward a horizon beyond

The reader will find in these pages a Strauss who is not an American neoconservative theorist nor an orthodox Jew

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while his death in Greece shaped how Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin chose to live and end their lives

For once in his life

Georges Bataille wrote On Nietzsche in the final months of the Nazi occupation of France in order to cleanse the German philosopher of the "stain of Nazism

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