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The status of Leo Strauss. His method involves a wholesale orientation toward intellectual life that is at best misguided and at worst incoherent

philosophersmag.com·18w

When you spend a long time looking at Diane Arbus photographs, you start to find her in unexpected places

lareviewofbooks.org·18w·Hacker News

The status of Leo Strauss. His method is a wholesale orientation toward intellectual life that is at best misguided and at worst incoherent

philosophersmag.com·18w

How did Enlightenment philosophers, at the end of their lives, reconcile their ties to the future with the immediacy of death?

wsj.com·18w

“Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society”

theatlantic.com

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Science fiction and prophecy. "Something like comfort is achieved when the absurdity of the real begins to look like the far-fetched What If of the imaginary"

thebaffler.com·19w

At 100, The New Yorker is venerable, storied, seemingly indestructible — just one more "gilded gargoyle on the cathedral of polite thinking"

persuasion.community·19w·Hacker News

The Master of Contradictions by Morten Høi Jensen review – how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain

theguardian.com·19w·Hacker News

Is a prohibition against gossip wise or feasible, or is it an affront to human nature? Consider the Bruderhof

plough.com·19w·Hacker News

From her first book, in 1963, to her last book, a collection published posthumously, Helen Vendler combined encyclopedic knowledge with observational precision

wsj.com·19w

The Enigma of Ur

theamericanscholar.org·23w

We have become boring readers, receptive only to recognizable plots and pro-social messages. One remedy: Read more Saul Bellow

metropolitanreview.org·19w·Hacker News, Hacker News

“The Famous Mr. Hendel”

laphamsquarterly.org·20w

Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives

theguardian.com·20w

“In a perfect world, intellectuals would be original, logical, funny and full of common sense. That is, they would be like John Carey”

thetimes.com

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Book Review: ‘The Complete Notebooks,’ by Albert Camus

nytimes.com

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No publicity, no marketing — how did a 70 year old’s debut novel start selling 1,000 copies a day?

wapo.st·19w

28 Book Industry Professionals Get Candid About The Year in Books

vulture.com·20w

The Renaissance book that heralded growth

worksinprogress.co·20w·Hacker News, Hacker News

Aphorisms seem perfectly suited to an era of short attention spans. But they are in fact the antithesis of AI flattery and half-baked hot takes

theatlantic.com

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