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We're watching the last meaningful distinctions between creating and copying dissolve, and most people couldn’t care less

oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com·40w·Substack

The One Book Everyone Should Read

theatlantic.com·42w

Can the real William Blake be rescued from his reputation as a hedonic, revolution-loving proto-hippie

thecritic.co.uk·41w·Hacker News

How Scientific Empires End

theatlantic.com·41w·Hacker News, r/Longreads, r/atlanticdiscussions

W.G. Sebald's reputation has grown so imposing that it is a relief to discover an earlier, less polished version of the writer

thenation.com·41w·Hacker News

Ibsen and the paradox of progressive moralism. He demonstrated how claims to serve ideals are often ways of serving ourselves

libertiesjournal.com·41w

Are critics artists, and criticism an artform? The debate is as irresolvable as it is consequential

metropolitanreview.org·41w

We’ve been condensing information into pictures since caveman times. But that's no excuse to use emojis

literaryreview.co.uk·41w

How to Grow Human Bones

nautil.us·41w·Hacker News

In Defense of the Traditional Review

newyorker.com·42w·Hacker News, r/Longreads

How much does Jewishness explain Partisan Review's famously pugnacious intellectual style

lrb.co.uk·41w

When a trove of Van Goghs and Picassos and Manets turned up in Athens stamped with Nazi insignias, a weird situation got weirder

airmail.news·41w·Hacker News

Why Are Quiet Spaces Disappearing?

honest-broker.com·41w·Hacker News

Who was Leopold Stokowski? The most elusive and controversial conductor in America

wsj.com·41w

The General Theory of Enshittification

paulkrugman.substack.com·42w·Substack

The life of the poet behind “The Two-headed Calf”

poetryfoundation.org·42w

For Christopher Lasch, sloppy writing was a form of sloth, and ambiguity was a form of lying. In other words, style revealed the soul

providencemag.com·42w·Hacker News

“Unalive,” “grape,” “You’re so skibidi…” The literary innovations of Gen Alpha have arrived — and are driven, unfortunately, by influencers

lareviewofbooks.org·42w·Hacker News

Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel

newyorker.com·42w

"The real irony of graduating from an MFA program is that one’s success as a writer has very little, if anything, to do with the MFA itself"

chronicle.com·42w

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