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WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal

theguardian.com·28w·Hacker News

Climbing ‘The Magic Mountain’ today

unherd.com·29w·unherd.com

The financial viability of serious literary fiction has been in doubt for over 40 years. And yet these books continue to be written, sold, and read

nytimes.com·28w

Freud, who amassed 3,000 inanimate objects, believed that collecting was a substitute for sexual satisfaction

wsj.com·28w

Can You Be Serious and Seriously Glamorous? Zadie Smith Asks

vogue.com·29w

“I’ve taught Nietzsche in the university, and I’ve taught him on a farm in the Catskills, and there is no comparison”

thepointmag.substack.com·29w·Substack

The Gypsy Life Of Robert Louis Stevenson

hudsonreview.com·29w·Hacker News

The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”

newyorker.com·29w·Hacker News, Hacker News

Thirty years ago, a notorious hoax discredited Social Text. One of its editors is still making excuses

thebaffler.com·29w·Hacker News, r/longform

“One remedy for vampirism … was to exhume the undead corpse and to drink what was left of its blood. So who exactly was the bloodsucker?”

wsj.com·29w

The Psychology of Portnoy: On the Making of Philip Roth’s Groundbreaking Novel

lithub.com·29w·Hacker News

Think of Shakespeare and think of me, insisted Gertrude Stein. But she remains best known as a salionnière and a mascot for modernism

wapo.st·29w

Scrambling for relevance, humanists rush to write for outlets like Aeon and the Los Angeles Review of Books. That won’t save the humanities

chronicle.com·29w

The Abundance Movement’s Blind Spot

noemamag.com·29w·Hacker News

Werner Herzog has no patience for “accountant’s truth.” He's seeking a truth much grander, “ecstatic truth”

thebaffler.com·29w

The Mild Mannered Englishman Who Was the World’s Most Prolific Ghost Hunter

lithub.com·29w·Hacker News, Hacker News

The prophecies of Paul Kingsnorth

newstatesman.com·30w·Hacker News

Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the decline of glossy print media. On the lower rungs of the masthead, underpaid, though privileged, editors toiled away

nytimes.com·30w

“Hofstadter says the small parts of life … aren’t worth thinking about. But playing the Bach cello suites makes me want to disagree”

romanticon.substack.com·30w·Substack

A revolution in English bell ringing

harpers.org·33w·Hacker News

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