Stories By Jascha Kessler
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Biography
Dianetics: A Dialogue
November 21, 2021“You clear me? I clear you? It’s not hypnotism, if that’s what scares you. You’re fully...
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Literary Themes
Watchman, What of the Night?
October 31, 2021The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely...
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Biography
A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
October 30, 2021“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
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History
Roses & Bulbul Birds
October 29, 2021What’s intriguing about the dreadful psychology of Muslim, particularly Shiite [read Hizbollah] fundamentalism, is that aspect...
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Literary Themes
Nick Bottom’s Blessing
October 28, 2021The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity's sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice....
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Literary Themes
Lola! Lola! Lola!
October 26, 2021The notion of Art's secular epiphany takes us to Vladimir Nabokov, a reader of Joyce. As...
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Literary Themes
Stemming from … Nowhere?
October 26, 2021To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence's genius, it was...
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Literary Themes
No Heroes Need Apply
October 25, 2021By the time we come to T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the...
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Biography
Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
October 24, 2021The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
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Anthropology
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
October 23, 2021I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
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