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Walter Battiss, Wandering Nude 1<\/i>, 1978, oil on canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n

Pop quiz! Which American philosopher coined the following expressions: pluralism<\/i>, time-line<\/i>, healthy-minded<\/i>, live option<\/i>, stream of consciousness<\/i>, and the bitch-goddess success<\/em>. Hint: he counted among his most devoted students Gertrude Stein, Theodore Roosevelt, and W.E.B. DuBois. Last hint, from a letter he wrote to his little brother Henry, in 1902: \u201cYou have created a new genre litt\u00e9raire<\/i> which I can\u2019t help thinking perverse, but in which you nevertheless succeed<\/i>, for I read with interest to the end (many pages and innumerable sentences twice over to see what the dickens they could possibly mean).\u201d If you guessed William James (correctly), you probably remember him as the main inventor of \u201cpragmatism,\u201d the can-do philosophy that professional philosophers love to hate. But as Robert D. Richardson shows in his 2006 biography William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism<\/em><\/a>, it is hard to imagine a livelier, more lovable mind. As a scientist, James did original work on everything from evolution to spiritualism. As a philosopher, he anticipated everyone from Bergson to Wittgenstein to Austin to Daniel Kahneman. As a person, James is the most appealing kind of genius, continually inspired by his family, by his friendships and romances, and by communion with what he called \u201cthe hidden self,\u201d where we are most vulnerable and alive. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/b><\/p>\n

The latest issue of Granta<\/a><\/i> includes \u201cNudity,\u201d an essay by Norman Rush about his youthful encounters with the body au naturel. Rush\u2019s parents dabbled in a kind of functional nudism, which we might today call \u201cletting it all hang out.\u201d \u201cThe nudity of my parents did not assuage my ripening interest, but inflamed it,\u201d he writes. \u201cI wanted to see other naked female humans, and I wanted my father to keep his bathrobe on.\u201d Though the piece mostly chronicles the young Rush\u2019s quest to see live nudes, it takes an astonishing, affecting swerve in its final paragraph, which I won\u2019t spoil here. It also includes, of course, those quintessentially Rushian terms for the female anatomy, \u201cescutcheon\u201d (the pubic crest) and \u201cintroitus\u201d (just look it up). \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/b><\/p>\n

Sunday is Groundhog Day (fingers crossed!), but I\u2019ve been heralding the arrival of spring for days now, however futile my attempts may be. Perhaps that\u2019s why\u00a0I picked up Tove Jansson\u2019s The Summer Book<\/a><\/i>\u00a0this week. I\u2019ve read Jansson\u2019s Moomin comics and her children\u2019s books, but I haven\u2019t ever delved into her prose. This book\u2014a series of interrelated vignettes about a girl and her grandmother on a quiet island in the Gulf of Finland\u2014is a treasure. Its stories are miniatures not just in length but in perspective as well: sometimes literally, as when the grandmother lays down near the beach and studies a blade of grass, a fluff of down, and a piece of bark in the sand by her face. Through her examination, their minute details are writ large; the bark, for instance, becomes \u201ca very ancient mountain.\u201d And when she finally gazes past them, to the wider world, it no longer looks so big.\u00a0\u2014Nicole Rudick
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish<\/em><\/a> is a paean to that now-extinct species, the \u201cdress doctor,\u201d a professional consultant who helped average citizens navigate questions of style and economy in a rapidly changing landscape. How should a working girl look professional on a budget? How might a farm wife stretch a yard of fabric and still be chic? And how to incorporate principles of harmony, proportion, balance, rhythm, emphasis into every aspect of aesthetic life? The author, Linda Przybyszewski, is an academic, and the book serves as an informative cultural history. But more than this, it is a tribute to a time when style\u2014and maybe even life\u2014felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers. \u2014Sadie Stein<\/b> <\/p>\n

As my Netflix queue attests, my taste in on-demand film skews toward camp and quirk. In the recent past I\u2019ve taken in Norwegian Ninja<\/i>, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters<\/i>, and The History of Future Folk<\/i>, all highly recommended\u2014but I\u2019ve never seen anything more bizarre than the newly released documentary Mitt<\/i>. Greg Whiteley, the director, has managed to humanize Romney; politics aside, I threw my coworkers off when I mentioned that, after watching the film, I actually kind of liked the guy. How can you not fall for someone who irons his shirt while it\u2019s still on? He\u2019s just like us! \u2014Justin Alvarez<\/b><\/p>\n

Retronaut, which calls itself a \u201cphotographic time machine,\u201d is always worth checking out. But the site outdid itself this week, with this horrifying, fascinating image<\/a> of an 1866 children\u2019s production of Bluebeard\u2019s Wives<\/i>. The composition of the shot and its macabre beauty are both arresting, but it\u2019s the kids\u2019 total commitment that I really love. \u2014S.O.S.<\/b><\/p>\n

Whenever I start to feel like there aren\u2019t enough hours in the day, I read \u201cThinker on Horseback<\/a>,\u201d a 1958 Sports Illustrated<\/i> profile of my hero William Steinkraus. Says Steinkraus of his daily grind, \u201cBy the time I work four or five horses a day, practice the violin for a few hours, work on some articles I\u2019ve promised, and write some letters and try to keep up with my reading, there isn\u2019t much time left.\u201d Did you work five horses this morning? Better get to it. \u2014Abby Gibbon<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a harsh winter indeed when one goes looking for relief in seventh-century Britain. But relief is exactly what I\u2019ve found in Nicola Griffith<\/a>\u2019s dazzling new novel Hild<\/em><\/a>, which imagines the childhood of Saint Hilda of Whitby and her first years as a preteen seer for her uncle, King Edwin. Griffith\u2019s lyrical prose emphasizes the savagery of the political landscape, in which religion, sex, and superstition are wielded mercilessly for personal gain. The plot would be engaging enough on its own, but Griffith\u2019s impressive descriptions of seventh-century production techniques\u2014for textiles, beer, gold, and weapons, among others\u2014make Hild<\/i> a complete escape from city slush and crowded subways. \u2014Rachel Abramowitz<\/b><\/p>\n

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