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Trotsky in Mexico. How Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and a Kremlin-hatched plot led to an axe in the head

literaryreview.co.uk·12w

Staunch anti-Nazis, Berlin’s Fest family was penalized first for their politics, and then as defeated Germans

bostonreview.net·12w

‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?

theguardian.com·12w·Hacker News, r/Longreads, r/longform

AI can summarize an email, but it can't make a genuine intellectual contribution. Right? Wrong, as Yascha Mounk found out

writing.yaschamounk.com·12w

David Brooks on the sins of the educated class, what Trump gets rights, and why he's leaving The New York Times for Yale University

chronicle.com·12w

‘She dared to be difficult’: How Toni Morrison shaped the way we think

theguardian.com·12w

Losing Faith in Atheism

newyorker.com·12w·r/Longreads

An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car

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The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul

honest-broker.com·17w·Hacker News

The film critic A. S. Hamrah has no use for plot description, boosterism, and take-downs. He focuses, instead, on continuities and contradictions

lareviewofbooks.org·12w

In the Victorian era, discoveries upended humanity's place in the cosmos. Tennyson turned this metaphysical crisis into poetry

slate.com·12w

James Wolcott · What you can get away with: Updike Reconsidered

lrb.co.uk

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The Mellon Foundation has put huge sums of money toward the idea that arts and letters is not for wisdom, but for advocacy

theatlantic.com

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“Revolution” initially signaled destruction. Why did the word take on a more optimistic tenor?

literaryreview.co.uk·13w

“One of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek word”

jonathanbate.substack.com·13w·Substack

Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality? Amanda Askell is fashioning a soul for Claude

wsj.com·13w

What happens when a novel’s plot comes uncannily close to major breaking news? The case of Murder Bimbo is instructive

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Was Elizabeth Bathory aka “the Blood Countess” a torturer of young maidens or a victim of a disinformation campaign?

nytimes.com

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We associate confessional poetry with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. But Larry Levis’s confessionalism was different

poetryfoundation.org·13w

At the Movies with John Ashbery by John Yau

theparisreview.org·13w

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