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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

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In 1913 New York City saw its first traffic jam. The cause? A Henri Bergson lecture at Columbia

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The Gothic doesn’t moralize. There are no happy endings. There are only intermingled, chaotic narratives of fear and transgression

culturedump.substack.com·33w·Substack

Why are even tenured professors, people with the most secure jobs on Earth, so unwilling to speak their minds?

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Charlotte Brontë was a secular saint who cared for her frail siblings in the face of their cruel, selfish father — or so the story goes

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Translation and Taste

hedgehogreview.com·33w·Hacker News, Hacker News

The dawn of the post-literate society – and the end of civilisation

jmarriott.substack.com·33w·Substack, r/Longreads

To understand what’s lost when a waiter tells you to scan a QR code, peruse the history of the menu

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Consider the Snail

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Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased?

honest-broker.com·33w·Hacker News

Sally Mann is not just a taker of ethereal photographs. She is a Southern yarn-spinner, a humorist, and a darkly comic raconteur

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A Different Annihilation

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The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith

newyorker.com·33w·Hacker News, r/longform

LLMs vacuously reflect our own writerly traditions back at us. So why, when they embrace the em dash, does it shock us?

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What’s the greater scandal: A few bad actors producing shady studies — or major psychologists' apparent ignorance of basic data precautions?

chronicle.com·33w·Hacker News

Arvo Pärt: the holy minimalist who defied the Soviets

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Large Language Muddle

nplusonemag.com·35w·Hacker News, r/TrueReddit

The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel

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Constantine Cavafy, Poetry’s Inadvertent Influencer

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What makes a literary “it” girl? Going to certain magazine parties, being beautiful, and writing on Substack, is the cliche

culturedmag.com·34w

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