a simple task on a weekly basis

It’s sort of funny, in a way, that he is known for piano études, because he doesn’t even consider himself a piano player, really, but there ...

over there

Mikhail Khodorkovsky graduated from the Mendeleev Institute in Moscow in 1986, with a degree in chemical engineering. At university he’d bee...

shhh

There is a Romantic misconception that terror has always to be impressive, fierce and appropriately Luciferian – in other words, that terror...

you have been warned

Instructions for writing: You will have about 45 minutes to write your essay. If your class is meeting in a lab, you may word-process your ...

Swedish readers?

A friend recently told me that in Sweden children are taught the basics of plumbing and electric wiring in primary school. Is this true? H...

fixes

In a remarkably condensed early essay, How is Literature Possible? this movement is prefigured. In it, Blanchot reviews a critical work by ...

they arrange these things better in france

After the war Blanchot began working only as a novelist and literary critic. In 1947, Blanchot left Paris for the secluded village of Eze in...

parallel lines

Is this a crypto-reactionary step backwards towards humanism, sentimentalism, positivism and the whole gamut of bad isms that the vanguard 2...

mislaid in translation

Toril Moi has a splendid review in the LRB of a new translation of The Second Sex, here .