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Is there anything epistemically admirable or useful about those who seek bliss in ignorance?

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Good Translations? Bad Translations?

hedgehogreview.com·44w·r/Longreads

The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell

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As Annie Dillard put it, “the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany”

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The Battle for Britain’s First Book of the Month Club

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Substack Is Where Writers Go to Be Weird

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Mountains rise, species disappear — in the incomprehensible vastness of time we encounter the geological sublime

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Inside the Salt Path controversy: ‘Scandal has stalked memoir since the genre was invented’

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Is there a literacy crisis? Or am I just old?

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Engagement with art and literature is a way of turning towards the world, towards reality, even in a state of captivity or desolation

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Can racial complexity be taught in a college classroom? Thomas Chatterton Williams finds resistance in students’ closely-held “moral clarity”

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New TV Novels

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Born into a Mormon family in Utah, the pioneering lesbian poet May Swenson found her footing in Greenwich Village

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Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet)

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The ghost of Muriel Spark

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A “trance evangelist,” an Indian guru, Andrew Jackson, Oprah — in America, charisma takes on many forms

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Geoff Dyer & Leo Robson, Theory in the Air — Sidecar

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Are You a $300,000 Writer?

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Paradise Lost was not acclaimed by its first readers. Then came John Dryden, who popularized and distorted Milton's masterpiece

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The Death and Life of the Straight White Man's Novel

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