Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

Compact7 min read
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Being Auden's typist. The experience left James Schuyler feeling awed, fascinated, and discouraged

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The Mirage of the Gifted Child

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Are we really in “the least innovative, least transformative, least pioneering century for culture since the invention of the printing press”?

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How the pursuit of mathematical understanding built the tools now poised to replace it

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The great AI divide. All writing — novels, poems, screenplays, even love letters — will be judged according to which side it falls on

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“I said I would do it before I die.” At 90, the esteemed American historian Gordon Wood turned to Proust

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Daniel Greco is a professor of philosophy at Yale. Why is he training an AI to replace him?

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Book Review: ‘Stalin’s Apostles,’ by Antonia Senior

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Peter Hujar and Paul Thek shaped Manhattan's art scene. They died before anyone fully understood what they'd made

Los Angeles Review of Books7 min read
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How to Tell the American Story

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You Can and Should Blame Young People When They Act Like Lazy Cheaters, Actually

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In Defense of Difficult Reading

The American Scholar4 min read
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The Critic’s Loves

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The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better

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Things Fall Apart

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Tiny honorariums, endless reading, and a bewildering amount of randomness — book prizes don’t work how you think

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Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art?

metropolitanreview.orgHN10 min read
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What Dogs See

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Read by a crowd of “envious para-intellectuals,” The Drift seems like it’s written, first and foremost, to avoid the possibility of critique

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