B-Sides: Thomas De Quincey’s “The English Mail-Coach”

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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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Ibram X. Kendi treats racist ideas as an all-powerful means of control, and the realities underlying right-wing grievance as exaggerated

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Reuters reveals Banksy's identity in a long investigation

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The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own

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What began as a magazine in search of answers became an activist organ certain it possessed them all. Marco Roth on how n+1 lost its way

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Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. Just Ask the Publishers Who Printed the Seventh Commandment as 'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery' in 1631

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The Cassandra of ‘The Machine’

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John Aubrey, born 400 years ago, lived a prodigiously productive literary life, starting innumerable projects and finishing just a few

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The Radical Tub

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Robert Trivers, who died this week, “could be hilarious, infuriating, inappropriate, jocund, tactless, volatile, sometimes aggressive”

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Despite his gloomy, austere prose, Colm Tóibín is jolly, garrulous, and likes to gossip

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The erasure of Black Studies. Facing political pressure, universities are turning their backs on Black intellectual life

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What can Schrödinger's cat, Bayesian inference, and the neuroscience of time reveal about how we experience the present?

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Middlemarch And Moral Beauty

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Ibram X. Kendi Can’t Separate His Fame From How to Be an Antiracist

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The levels of elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike are gone forever. Prestige fiction is dead — and that isn’t entirely a bad thing

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At 50, Orwell said, “everyone has the face he deserves.” Can the same be said about our hands?

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“Depending on who you ask, there are fewer than 10 full-time book review critics working today”

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Does culture make emotion?

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