1+ week, 5+ day ago   (464+ words) Prospect Magazine In praise of eccentrics Who’s afraid of eccentrics? Some see them as weirdos, outsiders, fundamentally off. As victims whose tics and sensibilities invite diagnosis or suspicion, they’re on the spectrum. Others, though, think of them as amiable mavericks,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1118+ words) Prospect Magazine The capacious humanism of Victor Hugo Penguin has recently installed the French author’s last novel, ‘Ninety-Three’, in its line of Classics. The new translation is revelatory In Georgia, in 1894, a young priest-in-training called Ioseb Jughashvili was discovered reading…...