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Living without my self

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Why the ‘heterodox’ university failed

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What Is Artificial Intelligence Anyway?

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“The humanities are not a system for the production of positive ‘research results.’ They are a practice of self-cultivation, or they are nothing”

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Great diarists open up the entire folio of their lives. Samuel Pepys was a great diarist. He was also a wretched human being

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'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu·6w·Hacker News

“At its most idyllic, siblinghood can be a fragile utopia, a protomarriage of equals, a playroom, a shelter from the parents or the world”

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The Importance of Being Idle

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Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History—In early modern Europe, around the time when lenses began to bring the world (and heavens) into newfound ...

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The house is a work of art

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The false dawn of the post-literate society

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Patricia Lockwood · Supersensual Ear: Willa Cather’s Substance

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Jan Morris correctly predicted that whatever her merits as writer, her obituary would inevitably read "Sex Change Author Dies"

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Jürgen Habermas, “a rationalist when it was unfashionable to be one,” died last month. He was 96...

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Just 25 literary agents collectively represent half of all authors short-listed for major American literary prizes this century

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Danielle Allen is a rare liberal academic who takes conservatism seriously. But she is far more interesting than the label “moderate” might suggest

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Crews Control | Christian Lorentzen

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The book review flourished in tandem with the Enlightenment. Both are in decline, leaving a great deal at stake. David Bell explains

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“Always read the magazine you’re submitting to,” “don’t resubmit the same day,” and other advice from literary magazine editors

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Pedants are irritating. They're also essential. The know-it-all is civilization's last line of defense

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