The book review flourished in tandem with the Enlightenment. Both are in decline, leaving a great deal at stake. David Bell explains

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“Always read the magazine you’re submitting to,” “don’t resubmit the same day,” and other advice from literary magazine editors

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Pedants are irritating. They're also essential. The know-it-all is civilization's last line of defense

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Nobody understands Gertrude Stein. With her, incomprehension was always, at least partly, the point

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The philosopher and the tsar. Leibniz courted Peter the Great for decades, seeking influence and ducats. It mostly resulted in frustration

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How to define a color. A seemingly simple task came to require scientific and industrial — as well as aesthetic

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Wittgenstein’s Apocalypse

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Thinking in the Margins

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In the ’60s Richard Hofstadter identified a “paranoid style.” Today’s version of that impulse, a “woke style,” is similarly inescapable

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Updike and the Jews: the men grotesque, hairy, hunched; the women dumpy and frizzy

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Robert Macfarlane is one of the great nature writers of his generation, making him an unusual critic of the genre

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Constantine Cavafy preferred mystery, candlelight, and shadow. His biographers are still squinting

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Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important Than Ever

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Geist in the machine

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Marc Andreessen says introspection is a Viennese import from the 1920s. Montaigne, Bacon, and Descartes beg to differ

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Stefan Collini · Capital Brandy: Eliot on the Run

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"There should be a simple rule for being a thinker," says Cal Newport. "Don’t let AI write anything for you. Writing is to cognitive health what steps are to ph...

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How the guy who got evolution wrong, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, managed to be right about so much else

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Those books lying all over your house unfinished? They’re not signs not of readerly fickleness, but of a robust indifference to societal norms

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I Love the Em Dash—Too Bad If AI Does Too

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