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‘When the facts conflict with the legend’
How does a biographer balance storytelling with the truth?
Nov 28, 2023
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Matthew Lamb
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The Doors of Psychoanalysis
Or, Standing on the Outside Looking In
Nov 14, 2023
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Matthew Lamb
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September 2023
On Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths
Reflections of an accidental biographer
Sep 12, 2023
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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
May 17, 2023
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Matthew Lamb
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November 2022
The Endurance of Things
On the literary imagination of Randolph Stow
Nov 28, 2022
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Matthew Lamb
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October 2022
‘He waxes desperate with imagination’
Or, re-reading “Hamlet” with Margreta de Grazia and Luiz Costa Lima
Oct 17, 2022
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Matthew Lamb
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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
Oct 3, 2022
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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
Sep 12, 2022
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Matthew Lamb
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August 2022
Notes On Askēsis (Part 2 of 2)
Or, the itinerary of a word through the Ancient world, its various contexts and meanings
Aug 29, 2022
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Matthew Lamb
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Notes On Askēsis (Part 1 of 2)
Or, the itinerary of a word through the Ancient world, its various contexts and meanings
Aug 22, 2022
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Matthew Lamb
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Albert Camus and democracy
Or, ‘the social and political exercise of modesty’
Aug 8, 2022
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Matthew Lamb
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July 2022
Sidebar: Toward a form of art criticism for the current moment
Or, further reflections on Lucienne Rickard’s “Extinction Studies”, and beyond
Jul 25, 2022
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Matthew Lamb
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