Psilocybin is doing what decades of philosophy couldn't: turning committed materialists into reluctant mystics

commonwealmagazine.orgCovered by210 min read
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Leslie Fiedler, the wild man of American letters, argued our literature was less realism than repression

The Wall Street Journal
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Common Readers

The Point MagazineCovered by410 min read
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Barthelme, the Houstonian by Susan Choi

The Paris ReviewHNCovered by58 min read
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Which Way, Western Marxism?

Dissent Magazine15 min read
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When Criticism Was Life and Death

ArtforumPaywalled.
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This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything

The AtlanticPaywalled.
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Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried with a body more than 2,000 years ago?

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The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakes’ tails and the kookaburra’s cry. Then he started giving lithium to manic-depressives

libertiesjournal.substack.comSubstack20 min read
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Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest

The New YorkerCovered by410 min read
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He was imprisoned by the Nazis; she was sent to a sanitorium. For Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, love was not a luxury they could afford

libertiesjournal.substack.comSubstack10 min read
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A.S. Hamrah's film criticism elides the distinction between comic prose-poetry and reflexive contrarianism

theideasletter.orgHN20 min read
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Fear and Loathing in Palo Alto

Washington Monthly9 min read
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The canine gaze. Dogs in Western art are surrogate viewers and compositional anchors

Literary Review4 min read
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On Substack, young “writers” jockey for status, but virtually none are writing about anything other than the world of writers itself

The Hinternet20 min read
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That presidential biography, narrative of a shipwreck, or forgotten war story? “The days when dad books reigned supreme are gone”

The Wall Street Journal
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Translating Kafka. Borges found freedom in his labyrinths. For Primo Levi, it was like recovering from an illness

The Wall Street Journal
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The Great Zombification

thenewcritic.comHN2Covered by715 min read
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“Central to Monroe’s appeal—in her time as in ours—was the stark contrast between her superlative beauty and palpable sadness.”

Bookforumr/longformCovered by315 min read
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Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried With the ‘Iliad’

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