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An unlikely musical tribute
By Alexander Gelfand | 11:52 AM Jan 22, 2009

How many rock bands would dedicate an entire collection of songs to the Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan? How many rock bands even know who Paul Celan is?
Those two questions flashed through my mind as I listened to the alt-rock ensemble Barbez present Force of Light, a multimedia show built around Celan’s ...

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Long after Hannah Arendt stopped being his "saucy wood nymph," Martin Heidegger had absolute control of their heady correspondence.
By Adam Kirsch | 12:00 AM Jan 21, 2004

Martin Heidegger
The correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt was a rumor long before it was a book. In 1982, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s biography of Arendt, For Love of the World, revealed publicly what Arendt’s friends had long known: that in the 1920s, Arendt and Heidegger had been lovers. But it was only in 1995 that ...