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"Turning gold into gold." What's it like to translate the Bard into Bengali, and Lear’s verdict on Cordelia into Chinese?

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Jerry Saltz’s ’90s Art World

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Is Woody Brown the Author of Woody Brown’s Best-Selling Novel?

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Malcolm Cowley, who rescued Faulkner, launched Kerouac, and shaped the canon, is a forgotten man who made others unforgettable

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Ideas of Slavery

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The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan review – an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard

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Helen DeWitt is the psycho we need

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What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all

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Cass Sunstein: “To attribute social terribleness to liberalism is reckless. Liberalism isn’t a force in history. It’s not Voldemort”

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Prophets used to be executed for being wrong. While the penalties are less severe, the lure of prediction remains the same

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The Hypochondriac’s Complaint

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The Stress of Elite Chess Is Wearing Down the Game’s Champions

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The invention of the soul

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The Man Who Invented The Future

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Elitist critics condemn literary “slop,” but in 50 years they may write redemptive theories of such slop and cut the ribbon at the Slop Museum

substack.com·3w·Substack

Roman-Flood

thedriftmag.com·4w·Hacker News

A History of Erasures

thepointmag.com·4w·Hacker News

Who Is Blake Whiting?

theamericanscholar.org·4w·Hacker News

Why AI Needs A Sense Of Smell

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