In 1939, a 3,000-year-old trumpet blared across BBC airwaves, briefly bridging Tutankhamun's tomb to 150 million living rooms

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In 1914, scholars classified every known instrument by sound. One missing category has now been filled: instruments that don't exist

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Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson

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As AI eats the internet, we’re witnessing the end of the messy, effortful, contestable business of finding things out

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After a minor renaissance in the late 20th century, narrative poetry is being eclipsed by lyric poetry. That’s a shame

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Welcome to Combat U, the campy, violent, inspiring, dismaying, downright confusing place where organized fighting and higher education meet

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"Whatever potential hazards and unintended consequences flow from AI’s mass adoption, my own experience using it contradicted much of what I was being told"

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How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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Camille Paglia is still exhausting

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Freudianism died in 1963, killed by Karl Popper. Yet in every generation there is an attempt at rehabilitation. Meet Mark Solms

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‘I want to be ripped to shreds’: writers flock to MFAs - but does it breed elitist literature?

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Did medieval people love their children?

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Verse From the Abyss

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What connects Ottessa Moshfegh, a fired professor in Florida, and a prudish college president? A creeping puritanism

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AI poses a moral hazard, but it may also render unintelligible cultural concepts like merit, authenticity, expertise, and deliberation

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With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink addled private existence

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The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores

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Let Everything Change

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An enfeebled grip, a depressingly slow gait, and the pitying kindness of others — Theodore Dalrymple searches for the consolations of age

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Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him

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