Tag: Literature

October 31, 2013

Philip Kitcher on Luchino Visconti's Morte a Venizia

This week our featured book is Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher. Today, we have a couple brief excerpts from Deaths in Venice, in which Kitcher discusses Luchino Visconti’s film version of Mann’s novella,...

October 30, 2013

Philip Kitcher on Benjamin Britten's Opera

This week our featured book is Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher. Today, we have a brief excerpt from Deaths in Venice, in which Kitcher discusses the opera, Death in Venice, by Benjamin Britten,...

October 29, 2013

Philip Kitcher on Thomas Mann and Gustav von Aschenbach

This week our featured book is Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher. Today we have an excerpt from “Discipline,” the first chapter of Deaths in Venice, in which Philip Kitcher looks at the works...

July 1, 2013

Laura Frost: You probably didn’t read the most telling part of Orwell’s “1984″—the appendix

Read an article by Laura Frost in which she discusses the crucial importance of the appendix to George Orwell’s classic, 1984.

August 2, 2012

Italo Calvino on Gore Vidal

Italo Calvino discusses the work of Gore Vidal.