Humans did not invent art. It was the other way around

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Mario Vargas Llosa by Gerald Martin review – the passions and politics of Peru’s Nobel laureate

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What made the late-80s culture wars distinct wasn't ideology alone, but a landscape where art itself still mattered. Paul Elie explains

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Fish Bad, Sugar Good… And Other Medieval Ideas About Food

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Before Godot, Beckett wrote a study of Proust and the redemptive force of art. He spent the next few decades abandoning that faith

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What's with the boom in biographies of people who never existed? The strange rise of a new literary genre

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Seneca called it existential nausea. Monks called it the noonday demon. Boredom changes names but always returns

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Are you unable to earn a living making art but want to do it seriously and are willing to live modestly? Get a chickenshit job

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What We Talk About When We Talk About the Interstitium

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Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother

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Who is the greatest short story writer of all time? According to one data cruncher, it’s not Chekhov or Barthelme, but Joyce Carol Oates

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No wave of riveting AI writing has arrived — only the diminishment of the magic and excitement of human writing.

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“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine

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Beyond Greece and Rome

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Nose hairs tweezed just so, and set with Krazy Glue. Gently dappled liver spots. Their art is increasingly rare, but a few morticians are hanging on

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Up All Night by Imogen Willetts review – a seductive history of going out

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For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative

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An Exquisite New Book Tackles a Subject That Was All the Rage in the ’80s and ’90s

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No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture

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Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton

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