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Leszek Ko?akowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him

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Admired in his time by Dickens, Byron, and Mary Shelley, Washington Irving’s reputation has been in steep decline ever since

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Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive 

History is the story of corrupt elites and the virtuous activists who oppose them. Or so it was, formulaically, for...

"The thought that Socrates would care about how his icon is fashioned seems strange to me, but the thought that...