As a quality of mind and character, Wordsworth’s “egotism” was central to his nature; it is therefore bound to lie at the heart of his greatest verse.
Dan Jacobson revisits Wordsworth in the Times Literary Supplement.
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Not recommended.
n + 1 has a piece on Slavoj Zizek in The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema.
At Time, Don Morrison examines France’s diminished cultural profile.
The New York Times reports that the New York Public Library is buying four hundred boxes of correspondence, journals, and other writing of late historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
In a time of daily articles describing the efforts of misguided librarians to destroy the institution of the library from within, it is refreshing to read of a library system taking its mission seriously.
At the Washington Post, Shashi Tharoor reviews Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Neoliberal capitalism, [Klein] argues, thrives on catastrophe: Not only are fortunes made from the misfortunes of the masses, but the global dominance of free-market capitalism is built on the infliction of disasters on the world’s less fortunate.
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Recommended.
National Public Radio’s Day to Day has an interview with Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.
