Imperial Delusions
Fara Dabhoiwala
From the late eighteenth century onward, the British justified their empire with a continually updated ideology of moral purpose and historical necessity.
July 1, 2021 issue
— Read on www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/imperial-delusions/

Her essays are valuable insights into the distinctive sensibility that produced all those remarkable stories that, like good poems, seem to resist paraphrase.
— Read on sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/lydia-davis-essays/
How should one narrate the life of a great writer? Joseph Frank’s five-volume biography of Dostoevsky, now supplemented by his Lectures on Dostoevsky,
— Read on www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/dostoevsky-and-his-demons/
{lgt41: Read him in my twenties. Crime & Punishment was such a page-tuner. It remains my favourite.
Back then, my reading pace for fiction was slower than non-fiction. I remembered envying John F. Kennedy’s pace, for there were so many books to read! I once attended a fast-reading course but only used the method as a student. There are rewards for slow-readers. Speaking for myself, my memory holds on longer to any novel I read. Another is enjoying the story better.}
If the right to vote is fundamental, then it cannot be subject to veto by partisans who benefit from disenfranchisement. {lgt41: Sometimes I fail to grasp the ways and means of American democracy.}
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/joe-manchin-cant-have-it-both-ways/619139/
