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    • In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon’s Masterpiece

      In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon’s Masterpiece

      The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 days ago

      Of the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppe, Gibbon says their unwillingness to settle into civilized agriculture boils down to “indolence.” He says,...

    • The Crisis of the Realist Novel

      Vulture· 4 days ago

      The other path was epitomized by Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, about a rudderless financier in post-9/11 New York who is estranged from his wife and finds direction and meaning in the pals he ...