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Cynthia L. HavenAbout books, culture, and my nutty preoccupations. I welcome conversations about French theorist René Girard, Nobel poets Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky. I knew all 3 and wrote books about all 3. All are gone, so we're left with memories and words.
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"Ithaca is not merely an island."
I, too, am tired of the noise surrounding Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, but this is among the best responses I’ve seen to the film so far, posted on X by Maria Papadopoulou. Thanks also to writer and author Tenia Christopoulos. Here goes:
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Nobel poet Czesław Miłosz wrote that his life was “badly tangled.”
Barbara Gruszka-Zych, a Polish author currently working on a book about Nobel poet Czesław Miłosz, visited and toured the Nobel poets earlier thiis year. We wrote about the visit here. She returned to Poland after her Berkeley visit, but le...
What my father gave me by forgetting
The Book Haven just published a post (below) on Luke Burgis’s newly launched book, The One and the Ninety-Nine. We were going to take the day off. But the entrepreneur author’s Father’s Day post today was something that needed more attentio...
It's out!
Today celebrates the release of Luke Burgis’s masterwork The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion. with St. Martin’s Press. Given the number of Amazon reviews, it’s already a stunning success.
My morning...
Lyuba's Hope is Russia's Hope, Too.
ФPhото: Sefa Karacan
Last week Stanford had a chance to see a riveting new 90-minute film, Lyuba’s Hope. It’s a work-in-progress, following Russian lawyer, human rights activist, and political candidate Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer and former he...
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NEH Public Scholar. "Evolution of Desire: Life of René Girard,”"Czesław Miłosz: A California Life,""All Desire is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings of René Girard" (Penguin Classics),"Conversations w/René Girard: Prophet of Envy” TLS, LARB, NYT
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