- Apr 10
- 14 min
A Thinking Stone
A review of Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah, by Ian Buruma Baruch de Spinoza Of the several very short introductions to Spinoza, Ian Buruma’s...
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- Jan 24
- 14 min
Night of the Hunter, a Southern Gothic Grotesquerie
Last Summer Penguin launched their Modern Classics Crime and Espionage series, and there are now twenty-nine titles in the collection....
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- Nov 2, 2023
- 16 min
Georges Bataille, Lascaux and Becoming-animal through Art
Swimming stags, Lascaux cave, France La Scene du Puits and art as violence The Boy’s Own story of the discovery in 1940 of the linked...
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