Few American writers have skewered the self-deluding barbarity that is American foreign policy with as much force as Dwight Macdonald

bostonreview.net15 min read
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

The Public Domain ReviewHN210 min read
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Admired in his time by Dickens, Byron, and Mary Shelley, Washington Irving’s reputation has been in steep decline ever since

Cleveland Review of Books10 min read
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Socrates’ Turf

The New York Review of BooksCovered by215 min read
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In weird girl literature detached protagonists have bad jobs, slightly-happier best friends, and troubled relationships. Are the novels any good?

woman-of-letters.com20 min read
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The smorgasbord: What began as modest, rule-bound dining in Sweden evolved into something akin to a “pagan feast” in the United States

cabinetmagazine.orgHNCovered by420 min read
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Anatomy of a Sex Scandal

The New YorkerHN210 min read
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The “.” emerged 2,000 years ago. “?” in the 8th century, “!” in the 14th. Then not much changed since about 1600

The Wall Street Journal
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Every Novel Is Boring—Until It Isn’t

Public BooksHN2Covered by76 min read
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Emily Wilson on The Odyssey

London Review of BooksPaywalled.
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Tyler Austin Harper found his “dream job” at Bates College. Then came the racial audits and talk of a “would-be Klansmen around every corner”

The Chronicle of Higher Education
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There's a name for demanding a group publicly recite a political position as the price of belonging: illiberalism

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Terry Eagleton: “Few acts of self-sacrifice can compare with sitting through Oxford High Table stone-cold sober for more than three decades”

commonwealmagazine.orgCovered by4
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Editing was largely absent from British publishing until midcentury, emerging only as firms grew too big to take risks on new writers

PorticoCovered by37 min read
Portico
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This Is My Last, and more ›
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The Tantalizing Possibility Of Locating Consciousness In The Brain

NOEMA10 min read
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John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography of the pioneering critic

The GuardianHN5 min read
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W.G. Sebald’s poetic, picturesque accounts of Austrian literature are, at critical points, gravely distorted

Cleveland Review of Books15 min read
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Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry have quietly borrowed each other's language for decades, each remaking itself in the image of the other

thelampmagazine.comPaywalled.
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Hannah Arendt’s American Education

The New YorkerHN15 min read
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The closing of the Anglophile mind

New StatesmanPaywalled.
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