{"id":50398,"date":"2013-04-12T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=50398"},"modified":"2013-04-12T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:38:59","slug":"men-women-dante-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/men-women-dante-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Men, Women, Dante, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/purgatorio_de_dantealigheri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/purgatorio_de_dantealigheri-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"purgatorio_de_dantealigheri\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-50399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/purgatorio_de_dantealigheri-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/purgatorio_de_dantealigheri.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><em>GQ<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/entertainment\/books\/201304\/21-books-for-the-21st-century?currentPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">suggested<\/a> the books every man should read.<\/li>\n<li>So then Flavorwire<a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/383724\/21-books-written-by-and-about-women-that-every-man-should-read\/\" target=\"_blank\"> amended their list<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You could, of course, also stick to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Books\/chapter-and-verse\/2013\/0410\/Robert-Frost-his-10-favorite-books-of-all-time\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Frost&#8217;s favorite books<\/a>. (If you like the classics.)<\/li>\n<li>Women, meanwhile, get stuck with <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2013\/04\/why-womens-books-have-terrible-titles.html?mid=twitter_thecutblog\" target=\"_blank\">awful titles<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDan Brown\u2019s forthcoming <em>Inferno<\/em>, of which Dante will be the central subject, has already got me trembling. Brown might have discovered that the <em>Divine Comedy<\/em> is an encrypted prediction of how the world will be taken over by the National Rifle Association. When the movie comes out, with Harrison Ford as Dante and Megan Fox as Beatrice, it will be all over for mere translators.\u201d Clive James, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/14\/books\/review\/clive-james-by-the-book.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">by the book.<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GQ suggested the books every man should read. So then Flavorwire amended their list. 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