Arts & Letters Daily

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of the several hundred links on the site this morning, two caught my attention -
the first:
Message to Freshmen: Let's Start with Kafka and Darwin - an article on Bard College's summer reading recommendations and the National Association of Scholars' report on summer reading for college freshmen

and

All the Dead Are Vampires: A natural-historical look at our love-hate relationship with dead people. from the article "As I worked on the introduction to the anthology, I merged the two main topics I write about: natural history and Victorian literature. I tried to look at vampires from a scientific point of view. After all, where did we get this fear that, once the sun goes down, the ghoulish undead climb out of their coffins and come back for the rest of us? It didn't emerge out of thin air."

Arts & Letters Daily - a great site to bookmark and check frequently !