Plus: The Hobby Lobby Antiquity Thieves; Bakhtin; The Parker Library; Duane Michals
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Today in The New York Review of Books: Nic Johnson pins down the bloodthirsty idiom that brought a mixed martial arts fight to the White House lawn; Madeleine Schwartz investigates the case of the stolen papyri; Gary Saul Morson explains Mikhail Bakhtin; Christian Donlan counts the books at Cambridge’s Parker Library; a poem by D. Nurske; and, from the archives, Martin Filler on Duane Michals.
Mixed martial arts have become the lingua franca of a strange new twenty-first-century formation: the nationalist international.
The investigation into the origin of papyrus fragments that the owners of Hobby Lobby purchased from an Oxford scholar underscores papyrology’s long history of shady deals and ulterior motives.
Since Mikhail Bakhtin became widely known in the 1980s, his book on Rabelais has perplexed readers for its seemingly contradictory stance to everything else he wrote.
Duane Michals is something of a superannuated Huck Finn, an incorrigibly subversive and inimitably American scamp always lighting out for new creative territories.
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