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Vonnegut and the Bomb

theatlantic.com·45w·Hacker News, r/Longreads

Only mediocrities adhere to rules of writing, so make your prose purple — the purpler the better

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The tyranny of optimization. Why the push to become better, faster, stronger, smarter, generates so much despair

plough.com·45w·Hacker News, r/Longreads

A relentlessly autobiographical author, Boccaccio's fickleness and neuroticism is on display in his work

literaryreview.co.uk·45w·Hacker News

Have you heard about the classicist who wants to do away with classics? Meet Walter Scheidel

thecritic.co.uk·45w

Eat your AI slop or China wins: The technological security dilemma

thenewatlantis.com·45w·Hacker News

The Origin of the Research University

asteriskmag.com·54w·Hacker News

Why do writers write? For pleasure, meaning, money, fame – and no reason at all. Lydia Davis explains

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Plato has been pressed into service as the avatar of an intellectual tradition that it's easy to forget he was a person

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The History of Advice Columns Is a History of Eavesdropping and Judging

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The mystery of Sylvia Plath is that she was absolutely ordinary right up to the point that she became extraordinary

lrb.co.uk·45w

William F. Buckley Jr. embodied conservatism in America. Yet he had trouble defining what it is or ought to be

theideasletter.org·45w

At Random House, Toni Morrison was an unwavering, exacting editor. She turned her author’s talent into cultural and literary power

slate.com·46w

The Self That Never Was

hedgehogreview.com·47w·Hacker News

Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

vox.com·49w·Hacker News

Was Virginia Woolf a depressed recluse or a sociable woman who enjoyed intimate dinner parties? A new collection of letters suggests the latter

literaryreview.co.uk·46w·Hacker News

A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts

newyorker.com·46w·Hacker News

Shadow Of A Doubt

harpers.org·47w·Hacker News, Hacker News

“Offense has become so large and so accepted a part of our response to art that it can sometimes seem we’ve endowed it with unimpeachable authority”

yalereview.org·46w

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

thewalrus.ca·46w·Hacker News

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