March 14, 2003
Minneapolis Envy
The new issue of the literary magazine Context features meditative review essays on the work of the Croatian novelist Dubravka Ugresic and the late French poet Louis Calaferte. Its back cover, however, is less genteel. In a full-page burst of sarcasm headlined "Way to Go MacArthur!!!!!!!," the magazine denounces the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation because it "once again snubbed literature as an art form" in a recent round of grants to Illinois arts groups. Of the
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