A Death of One’s Own by Terry Eagleton review – meditations on arriving at a full stop

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The extraordinary achievement of Moby-Dick is to unroll the blank sheet on which modernity will write itself

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Good Weird or Bad Weird

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The nonfiction collapse. We’re nearing the point where one fiction blockbuster could outsell the entirety of the nonfiction bestseller list

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The Age of Reading Is Over, Dropping Trust in US Media
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Would an influential jeremiad against American literature’s devotion to emotional immaturity change writerly habits? Alas, no

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I Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It.

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He claimed to burn with no causes — that detachment let Tom Stoppard dramatize ideas his committed peers couldn't touch

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When Meditation Makes You Feel Worse

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The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism

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During the golden age of Oxbridge dons, intellectual elites were treated as a national treasure. Then came Margaret Thatcher

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Pauline Kael was useless as a guide to movies. She was indispensable as an autobiographer of the Age of Cinema

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Americans are indifferent to art. But they obsess over art heists. "It’s as though a nation of teetotalers chooses, year after year, to hang out in bars

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Rachel Cusk’s new novel was billed as “literary scandal of the year.” But strip away the controversy and it’s instantly forgettable

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We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet

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Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president’s son. A fiasco ensued

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Old Directions

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Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses

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Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis

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In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word

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End of the Endless Summer

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