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To the Barricades!

The Essay

Michael Goldfarb remembers the books he and his contemporaries read and the films they watched, tracing the way ideas in literature and cinema are absorbed into the mind and become

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    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

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    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  • Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

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