The life of the poet behind “The Two-headed Calf”

The Poetry Foundation
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For Christopher Lasch, sloppy writing was a form of sloth, and ambiguity was a form of lying. In other words, style revealed the soul

providencemag.comHN
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“Unalive,” “grape,” “You’re so skibidi…” The literary innovations of Gen Alpha have arrived — and are driven, unfortunately, by influencers

Los Angeles Review of BooksHN
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Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel

The New Yorker
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"The real irony of graduating from an MFA program is that one’s success as a writer has very little, if anything, to do with the MFA itself"

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

Bookforum
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Motet for the Record

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

wapo.st
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Scapegoating the Algorithm

asteriskmag.comHN3
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Humanlike?

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

Literary ReviewHN
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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

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

Harper's MagazineHN2
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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

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

wapo.st
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Did Germany Read Mein Kampf?

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

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

Dissent Magaziner/Longreads
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Samuel Pepy’s diaries of a somebody

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

London Review of BooksHN
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