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As an editor and writer, Malcolm Cowley had one aspiration: to raise the status of American literature

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Baby Shoggoth Is Listening

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Remembering Jonathan Lear: "He wanted to understand what it meant to be human, and he simply followed that question wherever it took him"

thepointmag.com·27w

Under continual assault by technology and mass culture, our inner spaces — intimacy, privacy, the unconscious — are shrinking

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Sanctify Yourself

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The most widespread vampire panic ever documented took place in the mid-17th century Moravian bishopric of Olomuoc

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That Plato was hostile to poets is dogma. But it is untrue. The consequences have been severe. Elaine Scarry explains

bostonreview.net·27w

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life

thedriftmag.com·28w·Hacker News

“Literacy made war and war made literacy.”

thebaffler.com·28w·Hacker News, r/Longreads, r/longform

Quite Contrary

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The Future Of Space Is More Than Human

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Big tech’s futile attempt to kill death

newstatesman.com·28w

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound

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When the remains of a man who died thousands of years ago surfaced, he had 60 markings on his body. Fashions change. Tattoos are forever

lrb.co.uk·28w

Jonathan Swift’s lessons in irony

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Susan Orlean Knows She’s Had a Charmed Career

vulture.com·30w

A little ostentatious and a whiff of arrogance, yes, but by his Harvard days T.S. Eliot’s style already gave the impression of his having read everything

hudsonreview.com·28w

Mailer, Plimpton, Roth, Styron, Wolfe: At 93, Gay Talese dishes on his deceased contemporaries

metropolitanreview.org·28w·Hacker News

Scrolling Through

theamericanscholar.org·36w·Hacker News

Religion and society are complicated, interrelated, and finally indefinable. But that doesn't stop Kwame Anthony Appiah

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