Casanova: philosopher, gambler, lover, priest
Telegraph - What is Casanova’s biographer to do? The retired libertine did the job so well himself in his Histoire de ma vie that no one could possibly improve on his story, just as no one setting out to describe his extraordinarily restless life could have read, travelled or written more than Casanova, or thought more about the business of living than he did, or lived as bravely or as excessively.
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Our culture is just as censorious as it ever was
Independent - Beyond the rude words, which now cause the merest frisson of surprise, there are areas which, by a more subtle process than legislation, have, over time, become out of bounds. In an age when taking offence has become a cultural pastime, a process of gentle, fuzzy self-censorship has become established. It is no longer swear words that have the power to offend, but inappropriate thoughts.
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The next blue chip
Economist - The diffusion of new riches around the globe has helped the top end of the art market. As financial woes beset Europe and America, the auction houses are being kept afloat by other countries’ growth. Unlike the art-auction slump of the early 1990s, the current market is characterised by a welcome spreading of risk. Five years ago, Sotheby’s reckons, its millionaire buyers came from 36 countries. In 2007 that number rose to 58.
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Pasture Of Muppets: Inside the Metallica Reviews Scandal
Wired - Agents of Metallica managed another internet debacle last week, caused this time by preposterous demands that journalists who attended a listening party for the upcoming Metallica album pull their subsequent reviews. Only one publication refused: The Quietus.
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How Darwin won the evolution race
Guardian - It’s 150 years since Darwin made one of the the most significant breakthroughs in scientific history - the theory of natural selection. But if it hadn’t been for a young ornithologist on the other side of the world, his seminal work might never have appeared. Robin McKie tells the extraordinary story behind The Origin of Species.
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Is A. Leibovitz worthy of a retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery?
Independent - Well, few people have said no to Leibovitz, because to be chosen by Leibovitz is a kind of benediction by a celebrity. If you are famous already, and you are made even more famous by one of the world’s most famous photographers, who is the loser in this game? Whether or not you end up being ruthlessly manipulated is another matter altogether.
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The Breakthrough: Feminism and Literary Criticism
Dissent Magazine, by Judith Walzer - How do we know when something starts or when a new phenomenon becomes a major trend? We don’t have a “big bang” theory for the “second wave” of the women’s movement. The common wisdom has been that it began when women who were active in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s took a good, long look at their radical male comrades and began to question their own subservience.
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The new learning that failed
New Criterion, by Victor Davis Hanson - Why, then, the decline of the university? In large part, many trends have emerged over the last half century that share a common trait in their antitheses to classical education and the spirit of the Western life and letters.
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