where the past is not past and culture is not in flames
Welcome to the Burning Archive. Here since 2015 I have kept safe from the flames of cultural decay my responses to the writers, stories, institutions and traditions that make the flowers of my mind.
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Jeff Rich, Melbourne, 2022.
The American historian of the holocaust in Eastern Europe, Timothy Snyder has delivered in On Tyranny: 20 lessons of the twentieth century a best-seller by combining seemingly wise apothogems – be ascourageous as you can, be calm when the unthinkable arrives – with a wailing cry for help from the soul of liberal America in […]
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