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The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – a bold attempt to rehabilitate Freud

theguardian.com·17w·Hacker News

Hunter S Thompson’s freaks have overrun America

newstatesman.com

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Cane, walker, wheelchair: Is old age winter or harvest, depletion or culmination? A history of feeling old

wsj.com·17w

The epistolary Updike was open, amiable, self-assured, wonderfully lucid, and brilliantly organized. He was also emotionally impenetrable

thenation.com·17w

In 1923, a French woman who could only walk backwards and on her tiptoes sought treatment. And so she met Jacques Lacan

sydneyreviewofbooks.com·18w·Hacker News, r/longform

Cane, walker, wheelchair: Is old age winter or harvest, depletion or culmination? A history of feeling old

wsj.com·18w

“We lose so much when we demand measurability of things that are difficult, if not impossible, to measure — education, taste, health, beauty”

wapo.st·18w

In 1894 a German archaeologist discovered the poetry of Bilitis, an ancient Greek contemporary of Sappho’s. There was just one problem

aeon.co·18w

How Big Tech killed literary culture

unherd.com·18w·Hacker News, Hacker News, unherd.com

The Last Intellectual

nplusonemag.com·18w·Hacker News

The weavers, croppers, and hosiers who embraced Ned Ludd were heroic, delusional, and doomed to fail. Luddites, then and now

salmagundi.skidmore.edu·18w

Virginia Faulkner: Writer, Editor and… Ghostwriter?

lithub.com·18w

We are all le Carré’s people now

newstatesman.com

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We are wealthier than Aristotle could have imagined, yet spend little of that wealth on what he believed it was for: leisure

libertiesjournal.com·18w

“Authenticity is the supreme literary value, when in fact it is not an aesthetic value at all. Can there be a prescription more discouraging to the imagination?...

libertiesjournal.com·18w·Hacker News

The ratio of words written by Kafka to words written about Kafka is estimated to be about 1:10,000,000. Is there anything left to say?

libertiesjournal.com·18w·Hacker News

Randall Kennedy Is Afraid. He Thinks You Should Be Too.

chronicle.com·18w·r/longform

Hans Holbein is best remembered as a painter. But he was remarkably adept at book illustrations, window schemes, and metalwork

literaryreview.co.uk·18w

Literature’s oddest couple? Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller produced a masterpiece and a litany of bad ideas... more

airmail.news

·18w·Hacker News

January 1, 2026 : Wondercab Mini (103A)

lawrenceweschler.substack.com·19w·Substack

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