Large Language Muddle

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The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel

The New York Review of Books
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Constantine Cavafy, Poetry’s Inadvertent Influencer

The New Republic
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What makes a literary “it” girl? Going to certain magazine parties, being beautiful, and writing on Substack, is the cliche

Cultured Mag
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The child art star. Is great art a justification for the extreme exposure of the children of memoirists or photographers?

The New York Times
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"What growing up fundamentalist helped me learn early on is how terribly wrong you can be while thinking very hard”

Pittsburgh Review of Books
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Have you smelled that robot stink? It wafts off writing that's grammatically fluent but conceptually hollow

The Chronicle of Higher EducationHN
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Greenwich Village was “vicious” for James Baldwin — “partly because of the natives, largely because of the tourists, and absolutely because of the cops”

The Nation
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Adam Thirlwell: Devotion to the Cut

London Review of BooksHN
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The vanishing art of editing. Few have wielded a sharp No. 2 pencil with more skill than Star Lawrence

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A $23 million Stradivarius is just an instrument that tickles “human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat”

reviewcanada.caHN
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Star Lawrence and the vanishing art of editing. Few have wielded a sharp No. 2 pencil with more skill

The Washington Post
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Beware the AI Prophets and their maelstrom of hype, grifters, techno-messiahs, and pseudo-intellectuals

THR Web FeaturesHN
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"Sometimes an era is graced with a gift — a book that is not merely deficient in the usual ways...but epochal in its ineptitude"

wapo.st
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The paradox of lexicography. A golden age for the appreciation of language coincides with the demise of the dictionary

The Atlantic
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Is physics in crisis? That's the ascendant view on YouTube. Cue the rise of "conspiracy physics"

The Wall Street Journal
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On July 15, 2021, Harvard professor Max Bazerman received upsetting news: He was complicit in a massive fraud

The Chronicle of Higher Education
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David Hume vs literature

Aeon
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A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb?

The GuardianHN
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The Medieval moon. The moon was taken to be a cause for the Black Death, a symbol of female foolishness, and a drinking partner

Engelsberg ideasHN
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