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Literature, Truth and Beauty: Or, why “art for art’s sake” is poisonous

September 23, 2023 Robert Lazu Kmita 13

In an interview that I had the honor and joy of conducting almost 20 years ago, in 2005, Joseph Pearce revealed that his vocation is to mediate the encounter of as many readers as possible […]

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Sodomy, smoking, and and the inversion of vices

March 29, 2022 Stephen G. Adubato 9

“You must have a cigarette.” wrote Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. “A cigarette is a perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can […]

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