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I first discovered Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” via St Etienne’s version. If a “standard” can be defined as a song whose essence and meaning transcend the…
Originally posted on The Broken Tower:
Today is Ash Wednesday and although I did not want to provide a reading of a long poem for some time, I thought not…
From this review There is still a tendency among not very attentive readers – not to mention people who have read almost nothing of the work but have picked up…
At Comment Magazine, an essay by Hannah LeGrand on “thoughtlessness, sloth, and the call to think.” It is well worth reading and reflecting on. LeGrand begins with Hannah Arendt’s famous account…
Séamus Sweeney 