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Geoff Dyer has made a literary career on humorous high jinks and stylistic experimentation. His latest departs from all that

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Motet for the Record

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Early photography, the domain of “the clever, the wealthy, and the obsessed,” could be a death-defying pursuit

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Scapegoating the Algorithm

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Humanlike?

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Behind every visionary lies a calamity. For Plato, it was an extraordinary philosophical experiment in Syracuse

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The problem with analytic philosophers isn’t that they turn their attention to what interests them. The problem is that it isn’t all that interesting

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As facial recognition technology advances via AI, Michael Clune asks: How much should we value our privacy?

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When the communist regime in Poland fell, it was a victory for writers and readers and the CIA as much as trade unionists and politicians

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Henry James’s eloquent cruelties. His razor sharp criticism took literary failings as evidence of their authors’ personal inadequacies

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Did Germany Read Mein Kampf?

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Admirers called Alexandre Kojève “The Professor.” Others took a dimmer view: “the snake in the grass.” Both perspectives had merit

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In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade estimated that one in twenty American homes owned a piece of his art

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Samuel Pepy’s diaries of a somebody

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Size matters, but not as much as organization. Anthony Grafton on libraries, then and now

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Russian literature has long maintained a deep hold on the Western mind. But is Gen Z really mad for Dostoyevsky?

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Algorithm On Fleek: How TikTok is Transforming the English Language

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Was Condé Nast an “empire,” with editors shaping the course of the culture? Or did those editors merely reflect existing cultural change?

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Cynthia Ozick: “What marks the lastingness of a work of fiction—apart from the judgment of posterity—isn’t prominence in the present, or brilliance or ingenuity...

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The French liar

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