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Every era gets the self-help books it deserves. Why is this one teaching everyone to be a jerk?

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Agnes Callard’s Insistent Answers to Life’s Deepest Questions

thebulwark.com·37w

“Literary history does not, it turns out, have many examples of people appreciating great chaptering”

sydneyreviewofbooks.com·37w·Hacker News

A Rebel Writer’s First Revolt

vulture.com·37w·Hacker News

The Case For Crazy Philanthropy

palladiummag.com·38w·Hacker News

The Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, but is it finally time for a new world map?

wapo.st·37w

A century of scholarship has shown that the figure of the lone genius is largely mythical. Is Einstein the exception?

literaryreview.co.uk·37w

Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

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If anyone could pull off a campus novel about hell, it should be R.F. Kuang. And yet, her latest dark academia tale drags

wapo.st·37w

What's it like to re-read Moby-Dick when you're Ahab's age? Caleb Crain sees some things more acutely

calebcrain.substack.com·37w·Substack

How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge

newyorker.com·37w·Hacker News, r/indieheads

Christopher Marlowe didn’t merely precede Shakespeare — he made the Bard’s career possible

harvardmagazine.com·37w

John Updike was that rarest of things: a writer who sounds the same in private as he did in public.

theamericanconservative.com·37w

Reality is evil

aeon.co·38w·Hacker News

Historical error often helps build national consciousness — and so record-correcting can feel like a threat to the nation

thenation.com·37w

Mano a Mano

thepointmag.com·38w·Hacker News

The Seeker and the Sought

theamericanscholar.org·38w

AI can inform. Novels can transform. What will shape the human spirit in the decades to come? David Brooks has thoughts

conversationswithtyler.com·38w

With a large advance and an exclusive source, Joan Didion was set to write a blockbuster on the Charles Manson murders. Why did it never appear?

wapo.st·38w

"A mental patient, like an alcoholic, is endlessly cunning when it comes to subverting salvation, and Shulamith Firestone was one of the best"

bostonreview.net·38w·Hacker News

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