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How to Die in the Twentieth Century
Review R. K. Hegelman 2/7/24 Review R. K. Hegelman 2/7/24

How to Die in the Twentieth Century

This makes of poetry—true poetry—either a task that is more difficult even than sainthood, or else simply a fool’s errand altogether. There is a dignity specific to either option.

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To Be Modern: On Osamu Dazai’s “The Flowers of Buffoonery”
Review Micah Cash 6/8/23 Review Micah Cash 6/8/23

To Be Modern: On Osamu Dazai’s “The Flowers of Buffoonery”

Yet if the source of this confusion is undefined, it is because Dazai’s characters only subscribe to the first half of the trad’s mantra: they reject modernity, but they do not embrace tradition.

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Children of the Atom: On “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris”
Essay Philip Harris 3/24/23 Essay Philip Harris 3/24/23

Children of the Atom: On “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris”

They’re a potent reminder that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the twentieth century—the bargains made therein, the general Faustian demeanor accepted as a national character—and that a certain kind of serious, Modernist fiction still has a place and resonates.

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