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The child art star. Is great art a justification for the extreme exposure of the children of memoirists or photographers?

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"What growing up fundamentalist helped me learn early on is how terribly wrong you can be while thinking very hard”

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Have you smelled that robot stink? It wafts off writing that's grammatically fluent but conceptually hollow

chronicle.com·34w·Hacker News

Greenwich Village was “vicious” for James Baldwin — “partly because of the natives, largely because of the tourists, and absolutely because of the cops”

thenation.com·34w

Adam Thirlwell: Devotion to the Cut

lrb.co.uk·34w·Hacker News

The vanishing art of editing. Few have wielded a sharp No. 2 pencil with more skill than Star Lawrence

wapo.st·34w

A $23 million Stradivarius is just an instrument that tickles “human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat”

reviewcanada.ca·34w·Hacker News

Star Lawrence and the vanishing art of editing. Few have wielded a sharp No. 2 pencil with more skill

washingtonpost.com·34w

Beware the AI Prophets and their maelstrom of hype, grifters, techno-messiahs, and pseudo-intellectuals

hedgehogreview.com·34w·Hacker News

"Sometimes an era is graced with a gift — a book that is not merely deficient in the usual ways...but epochal in its ineptitude"

wapo.st·34w

The paradox of lexicography. A golden age for the appreciation of language coincides with the demise of the dictionary

theatlantic.com·34w

Is physics in crisis? That's the ascendant view on YouTube. Cue the rise of "conspiracy physics"

wsj.com·34w

On July 15, 2021, Harvard professor Max Bazerman received upsetting news: He was complicit in a massive fraud

chronicle.com·34w

David Hume vs literature

aeon.co·35w

A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb?

theguardian.com·36w·Hacker News

The Medieval moon. The moon was taken to be a cause for the Black Death, a symbol of female foolishness, and a drinking partner

engelsbergideas.com·35w·Hacker News

Substack “is the emerging locus of the literary world, and may swallow it completely in the next five years”

rosselliotbarkan.com·35w

“‘Cultural criticism’ is a term like ‘religion,’ that is, it exists but it also doesn’t.” B.D. McClay explains

notebook.bdmcclay.com·35w

In the 1950s, attacks on education were aimed at individual teachers. Now the target is the system itself

bostonreview.net·35w

Absolute Values

thepointmag.com·35w·Hacker News

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