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Elizabeth Hardwick deplored biography as merely a “scrupulous accounting of time.” Does her own biography transcend that? ... more »
Hannah Arendt’s life was marked by three escapes: from a Gestapo cell in Berlin, from an internment camp in France, and from Heidegger... more »