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teach yourself italian

February 15, 2016 by slow shimo

Teach Yourself Italian (jhumpa lahiri) The New Yorker, December 07, 2015     EXILE My relationship with Italian takes place in exile, in a state of separation. Every language belongs to a specific place. It can migrate, it can spread. But usually it’s tied to a geographical territory, a country. Italian belongs mainly to Italy, and I live on another continent, where one does not readily encounter it. I think of Ovid, exiled from Rome to a remote place. To a […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat, uncategorized • Tags: december issue, fiction, italian, jhumpa lahiri, short story, the new yorker

the naysayers

November 15, 2015 by slow shimo

The Naysayers: Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the Critique of Pop Culture (alex ross) The New Yorker, September 15, 2014   In Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 novel, “The Corrections,” a disgraced academic named Chip Lambert, who has abandoned Marxist theory in favor of screenwriting, goes to the Strand Bookstore, in downtown Manhattan, to sell off his library of dialectical tomes. The works of Theodor W. Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, and various others cost Chip nearly four thousand dollars to acquire; their […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat, philo & crit • Tags: adorno, critical theory, the new yorker, walter benjamin

the cheater’s guide to love

February 23, 2015 by slow shimo

The Cheater’s Guide to Love (junot diaz) The New Yorker, July 23, 2012 YEAR 0 Your girl catches you cheating. (Well, actually she’s your fiancée, but hey, in a bit it so won’t matter.) She could have caught you with one sucia, she could have caught you with two, but because you’re a totally batshit cuero who never empties his e-mail trash can, she caught you with fifty! Sure, over a six-year period, but still. Fifty fucking girls? God damn! Maybe if […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: a cheater's guide to love, junot diaz, the new yorker

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