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Reuters reveals Banksy's identity in a long investigation

reuters.com

·9w·Hacker News, Hacker News, r/Longreads, r/Longreads, r/news

The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own

newrepublic.com·8w·Hacker News

What began as a magazine in search of answers became an activist organ certain it possessed them all. Marco Roth on how n+1 lost its way

thepointmag.substack.com·8w·Substack

Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. Just Ask the Publishers Who Printed the Seventh Commandment as 'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery' in 1631

smithsonianmag.com·8w

The Cassandra of ‘The Machine’

thenewatlantis.com·14w·Hacker News

John Aubrey, born 400 years ago, lived a prodigiously productive literary life, starting innumerable projects and finishing just a few

literaryreview.co.uk·8w

The Radical Tub

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu·10w

Robert Trivers, who died this week, “could be hilarious, infuriating, inappropriate, jocund, tactless, volatile, sometimes aggressive”

skeptic.com·8w

Despite his gloomy, austere prose, Colm Tóibín is jolly, garrulous, and likes to gossip

thetimes.com

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The erasure of Black Studies. Facing political pressure, universities are turning their backs on Black intellectual life

chronicle.com·8w

What can Schrödinger's cat, Bayesian inference, and the neuroscience of time reveal about how we experience the present?

wsj.com·8w

Middlemarch And Moral Beauty

georgescialabba.net·9w

Ibram X. Kendi Can’t Separate His Fame From How to Be an Antiracist

nymag.com·9w

The levels of elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike are gone forever. Prestige fiction is dead — and that isn’t entirely a bad thing

lareviewofbooks.org·9w

At 50, Orwell said, “everyone has the face he deserves.” Can the same be said about our hands?

lrb.co.uk

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“Depending on who you ask, there are fewer than 10 full-time book review critics working today”

derekkrissoff.substack.com·9w·Substack

Does culture make emotion?

aeon.co·9w·r/Longreads

On Gout

thedial.world·9w

How God Got So Great

newyorker.com·9w·Hacker News, Hacker News

The passion of Will Self

newstatesman.com

·9w·Hacker News

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