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A recent play about Roald Dahl, "Giant," has renewed debate over the author’s antisemitic remarks and complicated legacy. Shilo and his guest Eli Lake discuss how they balance Dahl’s troubling views with the enduring value of his books. “I’m generally against cancelling great artists,” Eli says.
OldSchoolPod11,101 次观看 • 5 个月前

Rock and roll legend Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Collodi’s “The Adventures of Pinocchio” is nothing like the Disney film: “It’s not a world with a series of adventures, it’s a world that is trying to kill Pinocchio constantly—drown him, skin him, fry him, boil him… It’s quite beautiful because within that, Pinocchio is incorrigible... It’s his disobedience that makes him a man.”
OldSchoolPod16,713 次观看 • 1 年前

In “The Great Gatsby,” Fitzgerald was writing about “the central dilemma of modern life,” says Fareed Zakaria. “We have lost the sense of certainty that came from faith in God, observance of traditions, reliance on community... We are now living in a world of doubt... Liberalism ushered in a new world in which human beings had all this autonomy and all this freedom…It leaves a hollowness inside—a hole in the heart. And we’re still trying to fill that.”
OldSchoolPod10,659 次观看 • 11 个月前
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