“The best that is known and thought”: On rereading Matthew Arnold in 2023
Today, Arnold's ideas seem deeply unfashionable. They also seem pressingly relevant.
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A Blog About Books and Reading
Today, Arnold's ideas seem deeply unfashionable. They also seem pressingly relevant.
The novel is about nothing so much as the nature of storytelling.
The book's release seems like more than just the appearance of new work from a novelist regularly deemed one of the world's most important living writers.
HarperCollins is also facing an ongoing strike by some 250 unionized employees.
"That kind of direct connection with readers and creators is probably the majority of why I make art in the first place."
Illingworth will take up the reins at the ACP beginning March 1.
Both author and publisher are defending the contents of the book and publication is scheduled to go ahead as planned.
Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.
Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.
The journals in which the stories originally appeared will receive $200 per published story in the anthology.