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‘When the facts conflict with the legend’
How does a biographer balance storytelling with the truth?
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Matthew Lamb
The Doors of Psychoanalysis
Or, Standing on the Outside Looking In
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Matthew Lamb

September 2023

On Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths
Reflections of an accidental biographer
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Matthew Lamb
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May 2023

Northrop Frye’s Four Levels of Literary Meaning
Or, the nuts and bolts of reading
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Matthew Lamb
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November 2022

The Endurance of Things
On the literary imagination of Randolph Stow
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Matthew Lamb

October 2022

‘He waxes desperate with imagination’
Or, re-reading “Hamlet” with Margreta de Grazia and Luiz Costa Lima
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Matthew Lamb
A Substacker Reads Luiz Costa Lima in Australia and Bursts into Tears (with apologies to László F. Földényi)
On mimesis, fiction, and the control of the imaginary
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Matthew Lamb
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September 2022

On Edgar Allan Poe and the economics of literary theft
Otherwise known as publishing
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Matthew Lamb

August 2022

Notes On Askēsis (Part 2 of 2)
Or, the itinerary of a word through the Ancient world, its various contexts and meanings
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Matthew Lamb
Notes On Askēsis (Part 1 of 2)
Or, the itinerary of a word through the Ancient world, its various contexts and meanings
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Matthew Lamb
Albert Camus and democracy
Or, ‘the social and political exercise of modesty’
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Matthew Lamb

July 2022

Sidebar: Toward a form of art criticism for the current moment
Or, further reflections on Lucienne Rickard’s “Extinction Studies”, and beyond
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Matthew Lamb
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