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August 19, 2019
Wiseman’s Children
The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have…
Panahi’s Laboratory
In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was…
The Critic’s Loves
Harold Bloom wrote and edited so many books that it’s hard to imagine how he found the time between them to write letters.
The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought is an interdisciplinary, Ph.D.-granting graduate program at the University of Chicago. Its guiding principle is that the serious study of many academic topics, and of many philosophical, historical, theological and literary works, is best prepared for by a wide and deep acquaintance with the fundamental issues and texts presupposed in all such studies.
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