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By Michael Dirda | 07/20/2012 |

Souls Hungering After Meaning

By Michael Dirda | 12/01/2007

In Aegypt, John Crowley’s just-completed four-book masterwork, ordinary people bear a faint symbolic glow through real and mythological realms

Socrates' Mistake

By George Watson | 03/01/2005

The philosopher’s view of knowledge—forever demanding explanations, justifications, definitions, and criteria—is fantasy, and a dangerous fantasy