A rejection of messianic display, etc.
Debate rages in the LRB Letters about why “Jesus needed an ass for his final entry into Jerusalem.”
Debate rages in the LRB Letters about why “Jesus needed an ass for his final entry into Jerusalem.”
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Edmund White’s NYRB essay on Marguerite Duras reveals that she worked as a censor under Nazi occupation, a period that saw the withdrawal of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and of titles by Freud, Zola, and Colette, while Quantities of paper … were allotted to the publication of Goebbels’s memoirs, Paul Claudel’s Ode to Marshall Pétain, and the vilest anti-Semitic . . .
Z sends word that the next meeting of Urban Librarians Unite is tomorrow, 6/17, at The Creek and the Cave. 7 p.m.
I delayed renewing my NYer subscription & missed Mary Gaitskill’s Don’t Cry. A friend calls it “one of the most achingly beautiful stories I’ve ever read.”