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A Note Before the First. An index of Subjects. The subjects: 1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited. 2: The Tale of Genji. 3: The poetry of Daniel Huws. 4: The novels of Jonis Agee. 5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries. 6: The literature of the Blasket Islands. 7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War. 8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. 9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wor
#297: L’IMAGINATION AU POUVOIR! It all began in Nanterre, a western suburb where the University of Paris had set up a new campus in response to overcrowding. Contemporary descriptions make it sound like a bit of a hole—it’s now part of La Defense, the city’s gigantesque business district—and in 1963 there had been a ruckus when police shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a French student of Algerian descent, in circumstances which recall nothing so much as the recent ICE killin
