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He was a spy, a Zen priest, a fisherman, and a Bigfoot obsessive: Peter Matthiessen never had just one life

hudsonreview.com·15h

Thomas Nagel · I’m not sorry: Should we punish?

lrb.co.uk

·1d

Are You Enjoying Our Linguine?

thedial.world·22w·r/Longreads, r/TrueReddit, r/longform

Living in Berlin during World War II was like dancing on a volcano — full of raucous parties between the bombing raids

commonwealmagazine.org·1d

Nicholas Christakis was at the center of Yale's Halloween controversy. He wants to move on. The culture war has other ideas

chronicle.com·1d

How to Revive Liberal Education

persuasion.community·1w

The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps

theguardian.com·6d

Reality emerges

aeon.co·1w·Hacker News

The problem with a literary culture of images is that images have an exceptionally short shelf life. People soon grow bored with them

hedgehogreview.com·3d

"Cultural Marxism" means whatever you need it to mean. Which is why it never goes away.

commonwealmagazine.org·3d

It’s been over a decade, and scholars of the new history of capitalism have no more sense of a system now than when they began. What went wrong?

thenation.com·4d·r/longform

Zoom out and it becomes clear that the defenders of humanistic liberalism have been decisively losing the battle over ideals

libertiesjournal.substack.com·6d·Substack

Growling in a corner: Samuel Johnson’s lost years

commonreader.co.uk·1w·Hacker News

The Trouble With Narrative History

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu·1w·Hacker News

James Schuyler, the New York school's most neglected poet, may now be its most necessary

yalereview.org·1w·Hacker News

There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’

noemamag.com·1w·Hacker News, r/PhilosophyofMind

The Wrong Kind of Black Poet

compactmag.com·1w

Jonathan Swift Wrote His Own Epitaph. Was It a Joke?

newyorker.com·1w·Hacker News

Colin Kidd · Claremonsters: Harvey ‘C minus’ Mansfield

lrb.co.uk

·2w

The caricature of Camus as an absurdist and existentialist is a convenient fiction. But fiction nonetheless

lareviewofbooks.org·1w·Hacker News

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