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The Blog: occasional thoughts on fiction, culture, history, and society.
Jonathan Seyfried
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
Russia and Me: Here. We. Go. Again.
I’m sure I was not the only one who responded to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine with the thought, here we go again. Yet each one of...
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Jonathan Seyfried
- Feb 1, 2022
- 1 min
6 Reasons to Read ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ Right Now
A famous 20th century novel of ideas provides unexpected illumination for the early 21st century. Originally published in 1984, Milan...
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Jonathan Seyfried
- Jan 28, 2022
- 1 min
What Downfall Looks Like: A Review of 'Babylon Berlin'
A series set in 1929 Weimar Germany shows us the aspects of social collapse that usually escape our perception. Those who study history...
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