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Michèle Plott
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Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
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Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
Commuters reading, Evening Train, Penn Station, New York, 1958. Photograph: Louis Stettner Estate
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Hang on, when did reading become so performative?

(I get it, this actually IS performative in the movie 🤣, but Hepburn was a noted bookworm!)
image from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. Characters Holly and Paul are in a library, sitting at a table. Holly wears dark sunglasses and is reading a book. There are many books strewn across the table. Paul holds a book in his right hand and has a puzzled look on his face. Behind them are shelves of books, a cabinet, with a bust on it, and what looks like a framed map on the wall.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Anne Applebaum on the 'clercs' - the sycophantic breed of intellectuals who cluster around all authoritarian regimes:
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM