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About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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2012
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June
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- Vegetable love
- Midnight oil
- Media diets
- Clutter, tethers
- The most distrusted of writers?
- "T for take all"
- Saturday update
- Crime and punishment
- Existentially sad?
- The problem of evil
- "V is the Velocipede"
- Period television
- Shadow plays
- "I wanted to stay a democracy"
- Symptoms of intelligence
- Closing tabs
- "Every part of the world is habitable!"
- Closing tabs
- Blind alleys
- Closing tabs
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June
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(The Daily Mail feels differently
ReplyDeleteWell, it would. I don't know how well you know the paper, but it thrives on demonizing and 'splitting': on presenting the world as if there were a clear-cut divide between right-thinking people (in whom all motives are pure) and evil ones (in whom no motives are human).