Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...
For example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually the entire corpus of surrealism, Dada, and certain major forms of expressionism a...
Zweig, who had made frequent journeys around Italy before World War l, was delighted to discover that the Germans, formerly the largest contingent of travelers, are reduced to a modest number, among w...