When you think upon a star : FROZEN STARS: OF PULSARS, BLACK HOLES AND THE FATE OF STARS by George Greenstein (Freundlich: $16.95: 274 pp., illustrated)
My mother says, “The more you know, the less you know,” one of the many aphorisms with which she sent me into the world. Though she knows little...
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A Song on Porcelain
Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now feel lost or...
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Henri Bergson’s States of Change
Henri Bergson’s philosophy for our times. Why did one of the early 20th century’s most famous philosophers go out of fashion?
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