Literature

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.

Make it nua

History Ireland on IMMA’s 2011 exhibition, The Moderns.

Writers on writing: Vonnegut

“When I teach – and I’ve taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for a couple of years, at City College, Harvard – I’m not looking for people who want to be writers. I’m looking for people who are passionate, who care terribly about something.