{"id":3901,"date":"2010-08-20T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2012-10-22T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:37:35","slug":"staff-picks-sinner-semester-tony-judt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/20\/staff-picks-sinner-semester-tony-judt\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Sinner Semester, Tony Judt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kevinroose1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kevinroose1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kevinroose1.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kevinroose1-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>Raced through a great book this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004Z4M3SE\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B004Z4M3SE&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner&#8217;s Semester at America&#8217;s Holiest University<\/em><\/a> by Kevin Roose. He took a semester off from Brown and went undercover at Falwell&#8217;s Liberty University. The portrait he paints of the place is nuanced and fascinating. \u2014<strong>Caitlin Roper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was amazed to learn, from the strangers at Wolfram Research, that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wolfram.com\/2010\/08\/13\/25-best-hangman-words\/\">the best hangman word<\/a> is not \u201csyzygy\u201d but \u201cjazz.\u201d And by the inimitable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/books-and-arts\/77084\/salvador-dali-late-work-so-bad\">Jed Perl on Salvador Dali and his \u201ccosmic junkyards<\/a>,\u201d and what one presumes will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2010\/aug\/19\/meritocrats\/\">Tony Judt\u2019s last published essay<\/a>. And, finally, anyone caught up in the resurgent moralistic fuss over steroids and baseball should read Eric Walker\u2019s definitive and dismissive \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/steroids-and-baseball.com\/\">Steroids, Other \u2018Drugs,\u2019 and Baseball<\/a>.\u201d \u2014<strong>David Wallace-Wells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/students\/orgs\/jlg\/vol332\/477-508.pdf\">The Burdens of Manliness<\/a>,\u201d an article in the summer 2010 <em>Harvard Journal of Law and Gender<\/em>. John M. Klang makes an amusing disclaimer:  \u201cI am sure to provoke disbelieving groans from some of the thoughtful readers of this Journal \u2026 I should add at the outset, however, that mine is neither a contrived joke borne of some middle-aged fraternity dare nor a stale plea left over from the sensitive troglodyte yearnings of the 1980s Men\u2019s Movement.\u201d \u2014<strong>Daisy Atterbury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seeing as Tom McCarthy&#8217;s new novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307388212\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307388212&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>C<\/em><\/a>, is coming out in a few weeks, I thought it might be worth re-reading his last, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307278352\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307278352&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Remainder<\/em><\/a>. It was. In contrast to many recent &#8220;novels of ideas,&#8221; McCarthy doesn&#8217;t discuss concepts and theories: he sets them in motion, in a way only the narrative arts can\u2014leaving the discussion for his readers. A beautifully rendered work. \u2014<strong>Mark de Silva<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally picked up Paul Harding&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/193413712X\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=193413712X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tinkers<\/em><\/a>, the tiny book from Bellevue Literary Press that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/13\/business\/media\/2010-Arts-Pulitzers.html?_r=1\">won the Pulitzer<\/a> last year. I recommend it. \u2014<strong>Thessaly La Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been slowly making my way through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400044219\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1400044219&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Magic Mountain<\/em><\/a>. For the length of an entire subway ride, I can escape to a European sanatorium, where six-course meals are served by dwarves, young ladies whistle with their nitrogen-inflated lungs, and naps on reclining deck chairs are mandatory. \u2014<strong>Miranda Popkey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rereading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0085RZFM8\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0085RZFM8&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Beautiful and Damned<\/em><\/a>. Why? Because there it was at St. Mark&#8217;s Books, and there I was late for a haircut with nothing to read\u2014and because, really, what could be better? \u2014<strong>Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raced through a great book this week, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner&#8217;s Semester at America&#8217;s Holiest University by Kevin Roose. He took a semester off from Brown and went undercover at Falwell&#8217;s Liberty University. The portrait he paints of the place is nuanced and fascinating. \u2014Caitlin Roper I was amazed to learn, from the strangers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[438],"tags":[17,660,669,672,673,53,670,674,671],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-reading","tag-books","tag-f-scott-fitzgerald","tag-harvard","tag-kevin-roose","tag-paul-harding","tag-reading","tag-salvador-dali","tag-tinkers","tag-tony-judt"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Staff Picks: Sinner Semester, Tony Judt by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 20, 2010 \u2013 Raced through a great book this week, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner&#8217;s Semester at America&#8217;s Holiest University by Kevin Roose. 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