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Books and IdeasOctober 1, 2013
Copyright Without Law?
A legal quirk enabled Samuel Roth to pirate Ulysses. Was Roth a copyright anarchist or a pioneer?
Caleb Crain
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Language ArtsApril 30, 2013
A Professional Victim: On Ira B. Arnstein
How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.
Caleb Crain
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Autobiography and MemoirFebruary 13, 2013
Stalker
For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”
Caleb Crain
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Books and IdeasMarch 21, 2012
Havel’s Specter: On Václav Havel
The Czech playwright’s enduring ideas about politics, truth and human nature.
Caleb Crain
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February 29, 2012
Letters
Do justices feel shame?—the Met found wanting—can Congress feel our pain?—eyewitnesses: not 20/20—a reviewed author objects—Rainbow Rowell’s welfare essay
Our Readers and Caleb Crain
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CultureJanuary 18, 2012
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Language ArtsDecember 10, 2008
Pixies, Sheilas, Dirtbags and Cougar Bait: Modern Slang
There’s more slang than dictionaries can capture, but two new lexicons speak volumes on the riches of language.
Caleb Crain
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FictionOctober 16, 2003
Man’s Best Friend
As Stevie Smith once wrote, while impersonating God, “I will forgive you everything,/But what you have done to my Dogs/I will not forgive.” About Dan Rhodes’s novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home<
Caleb Crain
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FictionApril 11, 2002
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Non-fictionJanuary 24, 2002