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Shallow depth

The new theory on “Mark Twain”.

Exercises in style

@IrisMurdoch reminded us yesterday of the thirty year correspondence between Murdoch and Raymond Queneau.

The conversation

In Aeon, Nigel Warburton argues that philosophy should be conversation not dogma.

The ethics of admiration

Great essay by Darryl Pinckney on Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Hardwick and Susan Sontag in the Threepenny Review.

Apolitical cosmopolis

Pankaj Mishra makes a case against the global novel.