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Biblioracle
John Warner is the author of Funny Man and the occasional Millions article. He is also... The Biblioracle! and he wants you to be one, too.
Huh?
We've been discussing the changing nature of the English language a lot here this week (from the rise of public English to the acceptance of "like"), but if there is one thing that's consistent in language, it's the word "huh." Linguists have studied 31 languages that all contain the interjection, making it one of the first universal words.
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Real Grit
At the LARB, Anne Trubek quotes Lionel Trilling in a review of The Son and American Rust, the two books published thus far by New Yorker 20 Under 40 alum Phillipp Meyer. “In the American metaphysic,” Trilling wrote in his essay "Reality in America," “reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.” Those of you who read our pieces on both books may be able to guess why the quote is relevant.
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“We see these wounded women everywhere”
The latest issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review features Leslie Jamison’s “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain,” one of the most popular essays from her new collection, The Empathy Exams, which was reviewed for The Millions this past week.
Parul Sehgal Wins NBCC Award for Excellence in Reviewing
Parul Sehgal, nonfiction editor at Publisher's Weekly (and sister of The Millions intern Ujala Sehgal), has been awarded the National Books Critics Circle "Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing." Previous winners include Joan Acocella, Ron Charles, and Sam Anderson. The award was based on her diverse portfolio of work as a reviewer, including a review of Susie Linfield's The Cruel Radiance, a review of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life, and her piece on David Abram's Becoming Animal. Congratulations!
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No Exit
As Der Spiegel bluntly puts it, when Jean-Paul Sartre met up with the head of the RAF, a German terrorist group, he tried to use his powers “to persuade them to stop murdering people.”
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Custodian of Forgotten Books
Recommended Reading: On Brad Bigelow, a “Custodian of Forgotten Books.” Our own Claire Cameron traces the history of John Williams’s Stoner, which was first published in 1965 and became a bestseller in the Netherlands in 2013.
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