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Think again about this Sigmund Freud revival

Letters: Psychoanalysis comeback | World‑renowned floggers | Lights, camera, Croydon | Pantomime in parliament | Full-leaf failures

The Guardian - UK

Cormac McCarthy obituary

Acclaimed author whose novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian, told grim, violent tales of life stripped down to the fundamentals of existence in a hostile world

The Guardian - UK

The Anxiety of Influence: Harold Bloom's (not so) influential idea at 50

Joshua Cohen’s ribald campus novel The Netanyahus (2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is set during the winter of 1959-60. It depicts Ben-Zion Netanyahu, father of the current Israeli Prime Minister, during an itinerant phase of his academic career.

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Richard II by William Shakespeare: why 'the divine right of kings' (still) matters

What do you do with a bad king? And what do you do when that bad king is (allegedly) appointed by God?

The Conversation

Vermeer’s luminous interiors gave us a new way into the inner worlds of others

His celebration of the mundane reflected the beginnings of a modern sensibility

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: in praise of the 'horror master' Stephen King

Growing up in the 1980s, the name Stephen King was synonymous with macabre, terrifying, apparently taboo (though ubiquitous) book covers. They seemed to appear everywhere: bookstores, to be sure; but also newsagents, supermarkets, cinemas, airports and libraries. They always seemed to be spinning in some library carousel, looking tattered, like…

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