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That books are disappearing along with our capacities for complex and rational thought has become a ubiquitous belief. Doesn't mean it's true

persuasion.community·14w

The vapid radicalism of American studies. Scholars are quick to denote “racist, patriarchal, imperial” forces, but where does that take the field?

chronicle.com·14w

Oscar Wilde, William Morris, and John Ruskin were exemplars of socialist aesthetics, advancing the view that more leisure would result in better art

thepointmag.com·14w·Hacker News

With its mania for taxonomy and penchant for tidy solutions, psychiatry is ripe for reinvention. A new book takes a swing

wapo.st·15w

“Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?

newyorker.com·15w·Hacker News, Hacker News

Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much

aeon.co·16w·Hacker News

Why do so many authors and critics remain attached to a “literary fiction” genre in our completely commercialized literary landscape?

chronicle.com·15w

How the New Yorker Story — short, plainly-written, plotless, with slightly-enigmatic endings — became a genre unto itself

woman-of-letters.com·15w

Strains, Tensions, Exaltations

thepointmag.com·15w

Leonardo Sciascia, Sicilian public intellectual, never got over seeing a mafioso tell an indebted shopkeeper that his daughter “seems almost alive”

thetimes.com

·15w·Hacker News

David Rieff, Doritos, and the intellectual deformations of social media. “I don’t exactly think better of myself for all the time I spend on Twitter”

theideasletter.org·15w

Philip Roth’s coldhearted betrayals

unherd.com·15w·unherd.com

Championing “Attensity!”, the attention liberation movement is here promoting a digital detox. Does it offer anything new?

wapo.st·15w

Inside the Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing

lithub.com·16w·Hacker News, r/longform

The world’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok

newstatesman.com

·16w·Hacker News

Through Animal Eyes

thepointmag.com·15w

What Margaret Atwood Would Like You to Know

newrepublic.com·16w·Hacker News

Why the Do Nothing Challenge Doesn’t Do Much for You

nautil.us

·16w·Hacker News

The Mythology Of Conscious AI

noemamag.com·17w·Hacker News, Hacker News

Russia’s forests "have been an obstacle and a sanctuary. They have also been both an object of reverence and fodder for exploitation"

wapo.st·16w

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