“One of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek word”

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Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality? Amanda Askell is fashioning a soul for Claude

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What happens when a novel’s plot comes uncannily close to major breaking news? The case of Murder Bimbo is instructive

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Was Elizabeth Bathory aka “the Blood Countess” a torturer of young maidens or a victim of a disinformation campaign?

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We associate confessional poetry with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. But Larry Levis’s confessionalism was different

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At the Movies with John Ashbery by John Yau

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Listless Liberalism

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A Famous Enigma: On Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography and "The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève"

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In publications like the New Masses and The Anvil, the proletarian literary movement had a message for Ezra Pound: “See you in hell”

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What the metaphor of ‘rewiring’ gets wrong about neuroplasticity

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Christian Lorentzen · I’m always in the club: Peter Matthiessen in Paris

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Can ideas change the world?

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Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time

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Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

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How did a stereopticon lecturer and his white supremacist son end up in novels by Edith Wharton and F. Scott Fitzgerald?

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Daydreamers And Sleepwalkers

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Larry Levis died in 1996 at the age of 49. His posthumously published poetry forms a towering body of work

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Before 1970, humans were rational. After 1970, irrational. What changed? The nature of psychology experiments

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When Michelangelo met Titian. The evidence of how they influenced each other is scant, and we so enter the realm of the educated guess

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The Popper Principle

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