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The Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of magazine.
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Read U.S.A.! (opens the original)
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Dear Republic, really wants you to read the U.S.A. trilogy. This piece may pair well with ’s on a similar subject. -ROLREAD U.S.A.!U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stockquotations rubbed out and written in by a We
When Do You Stop Being a Writer? (opens the original)
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Dear Republic, We really got a lot of good pieces for the Transformation prompt and will sprinkle them out across the next week or two. It’s nice to start with asking the one question you’re really not supposed to ask on Substack — what does it mean to stop writing? Oh and by the way, if you have an opinion on “little magazines” — ranging from The Partisan Review to The Point — please feel free to send us a piece to republic.of.letters.substack@g
This Week at The Republic of Letters (opens the original)
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Dear Republic, We’re gearing back up for the fall — moving back towards daily posts, weekly interviews, regular reviews, and fiction — which means also that we need to balance our checkbook. The more, and better, content we have, the more expensive it gets — so please do consider switching to a paid subscription to keep ROL moving forward. -ROLTHIS WEEK AT ROL, “Is Brideshead Revisited the 20th Century’s Gr
The Monkey and the Missing Page (opens the original)
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Dear Republic, There have been approximately 80,000 pieces on this platform about the decline of the humanities, but ’s is one of the few to actually engage with what studying the humanities is like — and is all the more affecting for his having moved on from it.-ROLTHE MONKEY AND THE MISSING PAGE: WHAT ARE THE HUMANITIES FOR?A few months ago, before I hopped onto Substack, I might have objected to the question posed in this essay’s subtitle. I might have stated that framing the study of being h
The Error-Besotten Angel Down (opens the original)
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Dear Republic, It’s not always so easy to read a book when you know something about the material and the author doesn’t — and probably even less so when the author has won a Pulitzer Prize. nicely sets the historical and literary record straight about a much-lauded recent novel.-ROLTHE ERROR-BESOTTEN ANGEL DOWNA plunge into the heart of World War I; that is what the book jacket of Daniel Kraus’ Angel Down promises. Open the enclosed novel and one meets Cyril Bag
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