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Framing Middlemarch: Eliot's Invitation to the Moral Community
George Eliot begins Middlemarch with a modest prelude, barely over a page.
May 18
García Márquez and the Accumulative Grammar of a Life
In Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez gives Fermina Daza a sentence that seems, at first glance, to be doing little more than…
May 18
Two Types of Hairsplitting
There is a word I sometimes see when a philosophical or political argument has gone on too long or when a lawyer’s brief, for example, has disappeared…
May 15
February 2026
Heaventree: Joyce's Starry Axis Mundi
Recently I finished Joyce’s Ulysses for what I hope is the last time.
Feb 2
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January 2026
On Laving the Hands
In my morning study of Hayom Yom, a daily calendar compiled by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, I came across the word “lave” in…
Jan 29
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