In 2016, during the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the Bard was feted by dozens of books, hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, performances of his plays, lectures, and a Shakespeare Day gala attended by Prince Charles himself. The London Tube map replaced the names of its…

Prufrock: Dostoevsky's Drawings, the Rise of Jordan Peterson, and the Bayeux Tapestry Returns to England

Micah Mattix · January 18, 2018

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Prufrock: The Reception of 'Brideshead,' the ACLU Founder that Defended Soviet Tyranny, and Why Everyone Should Carry a Decent Pen

Micah Mattix · January 17, 2018

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Prufrock: The First Viral Video, William Empson's Ambiguity, and David Bentley Hart's Strange New Testament Translation

Micah Mattix · January 16, 2018

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Prufrock: Jesus in India, Inside the Strange World of Historical Re-Enactments, and Richard Wilbur's Delight

Micah Mattix · January 12, 2018

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Prufrock: Revisiting the Incoherent 'Brown' Decision, in Defense of Victorian Prudery, and in Search of the Phoenicians

Micah Mattix · January 11, 2018

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Prufrock: Fiction versus History, the Real Mark Twain, Physics in Everyday Language

Micah Mattix · January 10, 2018

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Prufrock: Snow in the Sahara, The Metaphysics of Fishing, and David Bowie at the End

Micah Mattix · January 9, 2018

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Prufrock: Over-Interpreting 'Frankenstein', Reading Burned Books, and the World's Largest Picture Frame

Micah Mattix · January 8, 2018

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Prufrock: Marvel's Progressive Bet, Slurpee Waves, and Kurt Vonnegut's Complete Stories

Micah Mattix · January 5, 2018

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Prufrock: The Owner of the Strand Dies, in Search of Mary Shelley, and Vincent Scully's Buildings

Micah Mattix · January 4, 2018

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Prufrock: Bach's 250-Mile Walk, Westminster Abbey's 13th-Century Stained Glass, and the Largest Early Modern Map

Micah Mattix · January 3, 2018

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Prufrock: Great Ghost Stories, Bob Hope's Christmases, and the Kindle at 10

Micah Mattix · December 22, 2017

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Prufrock: On Not Teaching Judith Butler, Childless Slovenia, and Dickens and Christmas

Micah Mattix · December 21, 2017

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Prufrock: Tolkien's Christmas Letters, 'Bonfire of the Vanities' at 30, and Everest's Dead

Micah Mattix · December 20, 2017

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Prufrock: Why Conductors Do What They Do, a History of Dust Jackets, and Jane Austen's Desperate Walking

Micah Mattix · December 19, 2017

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Prufrock: Read an Epic Yiddish Poem about Kentucky, Bring Back the Christmas Ghost Story

Micah Mattix · December 18, 2017

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Prufrock: 'Rolling Stone' at 50, the Popularity of 'Frankenstein,' and the Science of Jupiter's 200-Year-Old Storm

Micah Mattix · December 15, 2017

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Prufrock: Most Students Are Philistines, Charles Dickens's Other Christmas Stories, and in Praise of Acknowledgments

Micah Mattix · December 14, 2017

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Prufrock: Repulsive Utilitarians, Moses Mendelssohn on Friendship, and an Atheist Critic of Natural Selection

Micah Mattix · December 13, 2017

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Prufrock: The Many Russian Revolutions, the World's Greatest Snooker Player, and Why God Is Not Nice

Micah Mattix · December 12, 2017

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Prufrock: In Praise of High-Tech Weapons, Space Travel in the Age of Aquarius, and the Plague of Deconstruction

Micah Mattix · December 11, 2017

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Prufrock: Rehabilitating Freud, Waugh's Collected Work, and Buckminster Fuller's Domed Dreams

Micah Mattix · December 8, 2017

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Prufrock: What the People of Appalachia Want, Japan's Pop Pioneer, and the Mysterious Buyer of Da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' Identified

Micah Mattix · December 7, 2017

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Prufrock: Winston Churchill's Horses, C. S. Lewis's Love Story, and the Colosseum's Wild Plants

Micah Mattix · December 6, 2017

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Prufrock: The Pleasures of H.W. Fowler, Reading Aloud in the 18th Century, and in Praise of Bookstores

Micah Mattix · December 5, 2017

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Prufrock: Against Civilization, France's First Giraffe, and an Unimpressive Grand Prix Winner

Micah Mattix · December 4, 2017

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Prufrock: Andrew Wyeth's Realism Reconsidered, Joyful Poems, and the New Nationalism and the Sacred

Micah Mattix · December 1, 2017

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Prufrock: Cormac McCarthy on the Problem of Language (Again), 'Atlas Shrugged' at 60, and Has Paul Theroux Lost It?

Micah Mattix · November 30, 2017

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Prufrock: The Yeti Is a Bear (and a Dog), Michelangelo's David Copyrighted, and the Food of the British Empire

Micah Mattix · November 29, 2017

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Prufrock: Walker Percy Diagnoses the American Malaise, Thomas Jefferson's Ivory Polyptych, and Early Modern Honor

Micah Mattix · November 28, 2017

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Prufrock: Milton's Sources, Medieval Allegory Revisited, and the Art of Making Books the Old-Fashioned Way

Micah Mattix · November 27, 2017

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Prufrock: Hunting with Dogs in Pre-Neolithic Arabia, Truman Capote's Holiday Stories, and the Future of Digital Media

Micah Mattix · November 22, 2017

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Prufrock: Multidimensional Martin Luther, Against Pop Culture, and the Meaning of Time

Micah Mattix · November 21, 2017

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Prufrock: The Politics of C. S. Lewis, a Short History of Flash Photography, and Roger Scruton on the Farm

Micah Mattix · November 20, 2017

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Prufrock: The Museum of the Bible, Why There Are So Few Conservative Professors, and Edvard Munch's Norway

Micah Mattix · November 17, 2017

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Prufrock: 'Salvator Mundi' Breaks Record, National Book Award Winners Announced, and Charlotte Salomon Remembered

Micah Mattix · November 16, 2017

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Prufrock: 'The Odyssey' and Others, 'Paradise Lost' Overseas, and Tove Jansson beyond the Moomins

Micah Mattix · November 15, 2017

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Prufrock: 'Lord of the Rings' Comes to Amazon Prime, the Misunderstood Conrad, and Why Economists Need Tolstoy

Micah Mattix · November 14, 2017

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Prufrock: Oxford's Fictions, Persia's Hybrid Art, and Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'

Micah Mattix · November 13, 2017

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Prufrock: Rent-a-Dad, the Meaning of 'Guernica,' and Luther's Wife

Micah Mattix · November 10, 2017

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Prufrock: The Dangers of Biography, a Portrait of Flannery O'Connor as a College Student, and the Highest Note

Micah Mattix · November 9, 2017

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Prufrock: Sunny Sylvia, van Gogh's Dead Grasshopper, and Unsentimental Rural Britain

Micah Mattix · November 8, 2017

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Prufrock: Are Inebriated Millennials Ruining Broadway?, the Most Popular Emoji, and Boxing and Place

Micah Mattix · November 7, 2017

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Prufrock: Impressionism in England, the Allure of Shipwrecks, and Germany's 'Aggressive Humanists'

Micah Mattix · November 6, 2017

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Prufrock: John Updike's Many Letters, the Real Keynes, and How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read

Micah Mattix · November 3, 2017

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Prufrock: The Problem with 'Problematic' Literature, Against Gender-Inclusive French, and Late Gioachino Rossini

Micah Mattix · November 2, 2017

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Prufrock: In Defense of Patriotic Corporations, How the Reformation Changed Beer, and Stalin at War

Micah Mattix · November 1, 2017

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Prufrock: Stanwix Melville's Sad Life, Preternatural Phenomena, and Vintage Halloween Cards

Micah Mattix · October 31, 2017

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Prufrock: Uncle Waugh Is Talking about Shakespeare Again, a History of Europe's Four Winds, and Classical Music and Soccer

Micah Mattix · October 30, 2017

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Prufrock: The Age of Decadence (and Progress), Form's Negative Freedom, and Proust's Letters

Micah Mattix · October 27, 2017

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Prufrock: A History of the Rorschach Test, Einstein's Tips for Happiness, and Predicting the Next Pandemic

Micah Mattix · October 26, 2017

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Prufrock: Swiss Plumbing Gold, Amazon's PhDs, and the Politics of Reviewing at Kirkus

Micah Mattix · October 25, 2017

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Prufrock: Remembering Richard Wilbur, a Caligulan Coffee Table, and Nature and the American Founding

Micah Mattix · October 23, 2017

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Prufrock: The Lessons of WWII, the Lives of Chaucer's Pilgrims, and Jane Austen's Common Sense

Micah Mattix · October 20, 2017

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Prufrock: Thomas Piketty's Flawed Methodology, a History of British Embassies, and Ghost Stories

Micah Mattix · October 19, 2017

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Prufrock: Ancient Acoustics, Why the Medieval Trial by Ordeal Worked, and Bad Classical Music Covers

Micah Mattix · October 18, 2017

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Prufrock: Why We Need the Past, the Return of Print, and America's Most Popular Playwright

Micah Mattix · October 17, 2017

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Prufrock: Mark Twain's Financial Schemes, James Wright's Tragic Life, and Virtue Today

Micah Mattix · October 16, 2017

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Prufrock: Barzun on Byron, the Life of the Renaissance's Biggest Gossip, and in Defense of Rotten Tomatoes

Micah Mattix · October 14, 2017

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Prufrock: How to Remember What You Read, a History of the Ballpoint Pen, and the Problem with Implicit-Bias Research

Micah Mattix · October 13, 2017

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Prufrock: The Man Who Invented Baileys, When Will the Phlegraean Fields Erupt?, and the Future of the Western

Micah Mattix · October 12, 2017

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Prufrock: Tolstoy Family Recipes, a History of Madness at Sea, and the Last Privately-Owned Da Vinci

Micah Mattix · October 11, 2017

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Prufrock: The Science of Mona Lisa's Smile, Anthony Burgess's Ambition, and Jane Austen in Cheltenham Spa

Micah Mattix · October 10, 2017

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Prufrock: The Victorian Baron Trump, Solzhenitsyn's Greatness, and the Rage against Columbus

Micah Mattix · October 9, 2017

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Prufrock: David Bowie's Magical Masks, 1940s Crime Dioramas, and Philosophers against Frugality

Micah Mattix · October 6, 2017

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Prufrock: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Announced, a Revisionist Life of Grant, and Rene Girard's Intellectual Vision

Micah Mattix · October 5, 2017

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Prufrock: Edward Lear in Full, Muriel Spark's Juvenilia, and the Great Escape of Charles II

Micah Mattix · October 4, 2017

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Prufrock: Reality is Real, Tom Petty is Dead, and Philip Larkin Was a Drinker

Micah Mattix · October 3, 2017

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Prufrock: Heterodox Newton, Cooking with Gogol, and the Threat of Silicon Valley

Micah Mattix · October 2, 2017

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Prufrock: Nude Mona Lisa, Giant Coconut-Eating Rats, and Shakespeare's Rome

Micah Mattix · September 30, 2017

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Prufrock: Inside Skull and Bones, the Pleasures of Being Email-Free, and Scalia Speaks

Micah Mattix · September 29, 2017

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Prufrock: 16th-Century News, the Life and Work of Anthony Powell, and Useless Technology in the Classroom

Micah Mattix · September 28, 2017

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Prufrock: Wagner's Biggest Fan, the Treasures of Teotihuacan, and Europe's Narrative

Micah Mattix · September 27, 2017

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Prufrock: Willa Cather's Prairie, the Tate's Identity Politics, and Rodin's Genius

Micah Mattix · September 26, 2017

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Prufrock: Gottlob Freg's Great Intellect and Small Mind, a History of the Couch, and Two New Translations of the 'Iliad'

Micah Mattix · September 25, 2017

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Prufrock: The Secrets of Library Archives and the Problem with Catholic Fiction Today

Micah Mattix · September 23, 2017

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Prufrock: The Consolations of Latin, Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Critics, and Jules Verne's Time Capsule

Micah Mattix · September 22, 2017

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Prufrock: Neuromush, in Defense of Moderation, and Public Theology Today

Micah Mattix · September 21, 2017

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Prufrock: How AC Changed the World, Televangelist Hedonism, and the Problem with Teaching Today

Micah Mattix · September 20, 2017

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Prufrock: Dante as Theologian, 'The Peregrine' at 50, and the Qudra Oases

Micah Mattix · September 19, 2017

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Prufrock: The Legend of Lou Gehrig, in Praise of Borders, and the Life and Work of Richard Wilbur

Micah Mattix · September 18, 2017

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Prufrock: Total Waugh, Martin Amis on Mushy American Minds, and Religion and the Death Penalty

Micah Mattix · September 16, 2017

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Prufrock: Remembering John Gardner, the Novel that Inspired C. S. Lewis, and Hillary Clinton's One-Star Reviews

Micah Mattix · September 15, 2017

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Prufrock: Pierre Michon's Manly Fiction, Subglacial Caves, and Turkey's Forgotten Christian Art

Micah Mattix · September 14, 2017

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Prufrock: Monet's Art Collection, Hemingway's Bloodlust, and Waugh's Prose

Micah Mattix · September 13, 2017

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Prufrock: Bureaucracy and Poetry, A. A. Milne's Regret, and John O'Hara's Flyover Country

Micah Mattix · September 12, 2017

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Prufrock: Michel Foucault's Libertarianism, Jane Welsh Carlyle's Victorian World, and the Death of Taste in Venice

Micah Mattix · September 11, 2017

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Prufrock: Microdosing LSD, Soccer's Corruption, and Caravaggio the Criminal

Micah Mattix · September 9, 2017

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Prufrock: The Inept Knights Templar, the Fiction of D'J Pancake, and Artistic Freedom

Micah Mattix · September 8, 2017

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Cracks in Language

Micah Mattix · September 8, 2017

Remembering Pulitzer-winning poet John Ashbery, last of the New York school.

Prufrock: The Voynich Manuscript Explained, Why Russians Hate Gorbachev, and the Baffling Auroras of Jupiter

Micah Mattix · September 7, 2017

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Prufrock: The Return of the City-State, the Strangest Museum in Paris, and the Dangers of 'Concept Creep'

Micah Mattix · September 6, 2017

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Prufrock: Europe's Four Winds, the Real Gus Grissom, and the Future of Smoking

Micah Mattix · September 5, 2017

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Prufrock: Freud the Blowhard, William Rose Benet Among the Slicks, and More

Micah Mattix · September 2, 2017

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Prufrock: A Watery History of Europe, Why Truckers Love NPR, and the Plants of Tolkien's Middle Earth

Micah Mattix · September 1, 2017

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Prufrock: Southern Poverty Law Center's Offshore Accounts, Music in Medieval Scotland, and the Disappearance of Arthur Cravan

Micah Mattix · August 31, 2017

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Prufrock: Unfinished Novels Crushed, the Blind Traveler, and Should You Learn German?

Micah Mattix · August 30, 2017

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Prufrock: The Life and Work of Richard Wilbur, Against Activism, and a Short History of Rave

Micah Mattix · August 29, 2017

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Prufrock: The Art of Paperbacks, Eudora Welty's Photos, and 'Gone with the Wind' Gets the Ax

Micah Mattix · August 28, 2017

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Prufrock: Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald, the Real Alt-Right, and a 2,000-Year-Old Half-Shekel

Micah Mattix · August 26, 2017

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Prufrock: A History of Heligoland Island, Groupthink at New York University, and the Real Edgar Degas

Micah Mattix · August 25, 2017

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Prufrock: The Pleasures of Reading Aloud, Why People Hike, and the Achievement of Loren Eiseley

Micah Mattix · August 24, 2017

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Prufrock: How to Spell Shakespeare, in Praise of Donald E. Westlake, and the Loves of Stan Laurel

Micah Mattix · August 23, 2017

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Prufrock: Solzhenitsyn's Russian Revolution Novels, the Magic of Jules Verne, and Subterranean NYC

Micah Mattix · August 22, 2017

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Prufrock: Selling a Frank Lloyd Wright House, Big Ben Silenced, and When Milton Met Galileo

Micah Mattix · August 21, 2017

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Prufrock: Cambridge Bows to Beijing, Monet's Gardens, and Meeting Robert Lowell

Micah Mattix · August 19, 2017

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Prufrock: Blessed Pascal, Tom Stoppard's Soft Side, and Yeats Family Art

Micah Mattix · August 18, 2017

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Prufrock: Mysterious Dark Matter, Bacteria Balloons and the Solar Eclipse, Glen Campbell and Charles Portis

Micah Mattix · August 17, 2017

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Prufrock: Ray Bradbury's Otherworldly Fiction, Against Free College, and Identity Politics Off the Rails

Micah Mattix · August 16, 2017

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Prufrock: Does Europe Have a Future, How Fat Is Too Fat, and Did Money Ruin Art?

Micah Mattix · August 15, 2017

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Prufrock: GPS Spoofing, George Washington and His Horse, and a Life of Diana Trilling

Micah Mattix · August 14, 2017

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Prufrock: Flannery O'Connor's Politics, and Michael Moore's Disastrous One-Man Show

Micah Mattix · August 12, 2017

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Prufrock: Reading Lost Ancient Poems, John Singer Sargent's Watercolors, and the Summer of Love at 50

Micah Mattix · August 11, 2017

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Prufrock: Smartphones Are Ruining Your Kids, Abortion and Slavery, and the Return of U.S. Chess

Micah Mattix · August 10, 2017

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Prufrock: The Making of the Old Masters, a Year of Free College, and the Progressives Patrolling YA Fiction

Micah Mattix · August 9, 2017

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Prufrock: Google Employee Fired, the Death of the First Godzilla, and the Fake Cops of Santa Monica

Micah Mattix · August 8, 2017

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Prufrock: Diversity at Google, The Artifacts of Europe's Receding Glaciers, and Waugh's Fathers

Micah Mattix · August 7, 2017

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Prufrock: The Machine that Killed Pop, Saving English, and Europe's Friendly Wanted Posters

Micah Mattix · August 5, 2017

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Prufrock: Riot Chic, Why Kids Can't Write, and Neutrinos Observed

Micah Mattix · August 4, 2017

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Prufrock: Andy Warhol's Catholicism, Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, and Finland's Screwy Sports

Micah Mattix · August 3, 2017

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Prufrock: Chesterton's Chair, HBO Hacked, and Soviet X-Ray Music

Micah Mattix · August 2, 2017

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Prufrock: Free Speech on Campus, Why Academics Love Jargon, and Ball Lightning

Micah Mattix · August 1, 2017

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Prufrock: Lost J. M. Barrie Play, from Radical Feminism to Transgenderism, and the Rise and Fall of Richard Atkins

Micah Mattix · July 31, 2017

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Prufrock: Eliot's Marriage, the Literary Midwest, and Evelyn Waugh's 'Sword of Honour' Trilogy

Micah Mattix · July 29, 2017

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Prufrock: Arthur Conan Doyle's Fairies, the Nazi's "World Ice Theory," and the Slow Leak of the Higher Ed Bubble

Micah Mattix · July 28, 2017

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Prufrock: Intergalactic Gamma Ray Burst, Siegfried Sassoon's Catholicism, and Matt Groening's New Series

Micah Mattix · July 27, 2017

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Prufrock: The Art of Waugh, Italy's Majestic Marble Quarries, and a Life of Papa

Micah Mattix · July 26, 2017

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Prufrock: The Return of the Sacred in Music, Ella Fitzgerald at 100, and What Congress Does Well

Micah Mattix · July 25, 2017

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Prufrock: Surfing and Spirituality, Isaac Bashevis Singer's Religion, and Revisiting the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

Micah Mattix · July 24, 2017

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Prufrock: George Strait's Long Ride, the Honest Cocktail, and Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen

Micah Mattix · July 22, 2017

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Prufrock: Netflix vs. Dickens, a Brilliant History of Special Ops, and the Popularity of 'Paradise Lost'

Micah Mattix · July 21, 2017

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Prufrock: Tolstoy's Hypocrisy, Spain's Three-Hour Lunches, and Remembering Britain's Talking Mongoose

Micah Mattix · July 20, 2017

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Prufrock: Jane Austen Tenner, Kermit the Frog Fired, and the Value of the Humanities

Micah Mattix · July 19, 2017

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Prufrock: How to Read a Gutenberg, 'Chilled' Shakespeare Performances, and 'Zama' Revisited

Micah Mattix · July 18, 2017

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Systemic Racism Is Everywhere ... and Nowhere

Micah Mattix · July 18, 2017

Last week, Amanda Nelson, managing editor of book blog Book Riot, claimed to have definitive proof of “systemic bias” in the publishing industry. Apparently, the Book Riot editors put their lab coats on and tracked all the unsolicited galleys sent to them by publishers for possible review for “a…

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