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The Laws Jews Gave the World Now Put Israel on Trial
The Laws Jews Gave the World Now Put Israel on Trial
History has a cruel sense of irony. Eighty years ago, two Jewish lawyers from the same city, Lviv in Ukraine, gave the world the words we now use to talk... Read more...
The Labyrinth Maker: Jorge Luis Borges and the Literature of Infinity
The Labyrinth Maker: Jorge Luis Borges and the Literature of Infinity
He feared mirrors, distrusted democracy, and once described paradise as a kind of library. In his mind, reality was a fiction, and fiction, a form of metaphysics. Jorge Luis Borges... Read more...
Casa Carlini Announces Upcoming Release of Fearful in Gaza, a Memoir by Abdalhadi Alijla
Casa Carlini Announces Upcoming Release of Fearful in Gaza, a Memoir by Abdalhadi Alijla
New York, NY — August 23, 2025 — Casa Carlini is proud to announce the forthcoming release of Fearful in Gaza by Palestinian-Swedish political scientist and author Abdalhadi Alijla. Now... Read more...
The Meaning in the Margins: Clifford Geertz and the Anthropology of Ambiguity
The Meaning in the Margins: Clifford Geertz and the Anthropology of Ambiguity
He believed that human lives are suspended in “webs of meaning” and that the task of anthropology is to trace those webs with elegance and empathy. Clifford Geertz approached anthropology... Read more...
The Slow Erosion of Reading and What It Means for Us
The Slow Erosion of Reading and What It Means for Us
Think back to the last time you lost yourself in a book. Not a skim, not a quick glance at a page before sleep, but the kind of deep immersion... Read more...
The Ghost Evicted: Gilbert Ryle and the Unmasking of the Mind
The Ghost Evicted: Gilbert Ryle and the Unmasking of the Mind
He dismantled a centuries-old illusion with a single phrase, exposing the mind not as a hidden realm but as a public performance. Gilbert Ryle was a philosopher who could deflate... Read more...
Deledda’s Dominion: The Woman Who Ruled Italian Literature
Deledda’s Dominion: The Woman Who Ruled Italian Literature
She was the novelist who illuminated the shadows of Sardinia—stoic, introspective, fiercely private, yet spinning tales that burned with the raw fire of human desire and despair. Grazia Deledda, the... Read more...
I Built a Career in Music. Here’s Why the Industry No Longer Works.
I Built a Career in Music. Here’s Why the Industry No Longer Works.
I recently stumbled across a clip of Mark Cuban on TikTok, and what he said has been echoing in my mind ever since. He was asked about the worst industries... Read more...
The Drunkard’s Muse: Charles Bukowski and the Art of Unfiltered Truth
The Drunkard’s Muse: Charles Bukowski and the Art of Unfiltered Truth
He hunched over his typewriter, wine bottle at hand, cigarette burning, a bard of the barstool who romanticized ruin. Charles Bukowski was a poet of the gutter, a laureate of... Read more...
The Shield That Lets Netanyahu Wage War Without Consequence
The Shield That Lets Netanyahu Wage War Without Consequence
On April 16, 2025, Fatima Hassouna, a 26-year-old Palestinian photojournalist, was killed with ten family members, among them her pregnant sister, when an Israeli airstrike targeted their home in Gaza... Read more...
Prostitutes, Poets, and Politicians: The World According to Jorge Amado
Prostitutes, Poets, and Politicians: The World According to Jorge Amado
He wrote of prostitutes with the reverence of saints, of revolutionaries with the whimsy of carnival dancers, and of Brazil’s dirt-poor nordestinos as if they were the inheritors of the... Read more...
Andy Warhol: The Pop Art Icon Who Turned Celebrity and Consumerism into High Art
Andy Warhol: The Pop Art Icon Who Turned Celebrity and Consumerism into High Art
He turned celebrity into sacrament, soup cans into icons, and said almost nothing while doing it. He cultivated detachment like a monk does silence, observing America’s consumer culture not with... Read more...