Erin Maglaque: Green into Gold

London Review of BooksPaywalled.
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Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon was adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare

The Baffler15 min read
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How Silicon Valley Learned to Love Killer Robots

The AtlanticPaywalled.
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Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded

Commentary Magazine
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The Films That Foretold Fascism

The New RepublicCovered by210 min read
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Culture clash

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Modern diet and food fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation

The Wall Street Journal
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Ray Monk: Einstein’s Miracle Year

London Review of BooksPaywalled.
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Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography”

Portico
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Dolphins and other lovers

AeonHN20 min read
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Frank O'Hara packed 100 references into 500 lines. Even his most devoted readers miss most of them

The Poetry FoundationCovered by220 min read
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Yes, its titans were bad writers, narcissists, failed artists, murderers, and Nazis — and yet, it’s okay to love literary theory

The Chronicle of Higher Education
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What is intelligence? A vice president at Google aims to find out, ignoring decades of lessons from cognitive science and linguistics

Inference10 min read
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Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu3 min read
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Earth's Organisms Developed Via Evolution. Some Theorists Wonder: What if the Entire Cosmos Did, Too?

Smithsonian MagazineHN2Covered by410 min read
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Leszek Ko?akowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him

Portico15 min read
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What should we do with “truly depraved,” morally dangerous art? Consider the “worst” of this lot and few easy answers emerge

The Wall Street Journal
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Chock-full of highly original description and impressive sentences, recent literary fiction is boring and utterly devoid of fun

devonhalliday.substack.comSubstackCovered by315 min read
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Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive

The Poetry FoundationCovered by520 min read
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Book publishing is awash in AI scandals. As one agent puts it, AI slop has gotten so bad it makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like Tolstoy

The Wall Street Journal
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