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The Contract Between Artist and Public
You don’t expect to understand anything as important as art straight off, do you? I mean, this is pretty complex stuff.
19 hrs ago
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Andrew Rickard
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That Old-Fashioned Morphine
Miss Emma in the Belle Époque
Jun 12
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Andrew Rickard
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Revolutionary Talent
Too much monkey business
Jun 5
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Andrew Rickard
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May 2025
Jeanne Mammen
Living simply to paint wildly
May 29
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Andrew Rickard
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Are AI Slop Publishers Salting the Earth for Literary Translations?
Why yes, yes they are.
May 22
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Andrew Rickard
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Advice to Bibliophiles
A gourmet is not a glutton
May 14
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Andrew Rickard
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Céline on the Effects of Television
The brain is a muscle: it becomes flaccid.
May 7
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Andrew Rickard
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April 2025
Cultivation of the Mind
When one learns Latin, one learns something more than just how to speak it.
Apr 30
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Andrew Rickard
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Departed Souls
A quote about books from Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (1804-1872)
Apr 24
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Andrew Rickard
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When the Crows Strike With Their Beaks
An anti-war poem by René Ponsard (1826-1894), wrongly attributed to François Ponsard (1814-1867)
Apr 16
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Andrew Rickard
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Why Study the Humanities?
A quote from Émile Amiel's biography of Erasmus
Apr 9
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Andrew Rickard
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March 2025
Art Offers Relief
"It gave one hope for less savage tomorrows."
Mar 26
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Andrew Rickard
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