Beckett the Prophet

The American ScholarCovered by26 min read
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Everybody Knows Poets Are Weird. Margaret Avison Was Weirder

The Walrus8 min read
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Terry Eagleton: Starveling Rabblement

London Review of BooksPaywalled.
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Fueled by peyote, the anthropologist and cult leader Carlos Castaneda was one of the world’s most read authors in 1970. Today he’s an artifact

The New York TimesPaywalled.
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"Treat me as though I were dead," Muriel Spark told her biographer. Then she tried to bury the book

The Wall Street Journal
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Loitering towards war

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Aeon
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Scholarship requires bracketing your own convictions long enough to inhabit a possibly repugnant argument. Too few now attempt it

The Chronicle of Higher Education
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AI may sharpen what we do. But what manner of people will we become? K. Anthony Appiah on LLMs and morality

humanistreview.aiHNCovered by320 min read
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With their mad methods and aesthetic gimmicks, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin were, together, a brand: The Cut-Up Boys of the Interzone

London Review of BooksPaywalled.
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A Philosopher's One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

Derek ThompsonHNCovered by1820 min read
Derek Thompson
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Manifest Man

thenewcritic.comHN20 min read
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For Marco Roth, the cardinal sin of elegy writing “is to make it about oneself more than the deceased”

romanticon.substack.comSubstack15 min read
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“The smartphone erodes freedom not because it invades our private space, but because it gives us the feel of a private world”

The New AtlantisHNCovered by310 min read
The New Atlantis
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‘Ravelstein’ Revisited

The BulwarkCovered by210 min read
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What Is Punctuation For?

The AtlanticPaywalled.
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Ten thousand books in 600 square feet: For a young member of the literati, it was a temple of the mind; for his landlord, it was a fire hazard

The New York TimesPaywalled.
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Carolyn Rouse did an interview to rebut the charge that anthropology has too much politics and too little rigor. It didn't go well

The Chronicle of Higher EducationHNCovered by7
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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How “Piss Christ” Became a Culture-War Bomb

The New YorkerHNCovered by215 min read
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Michel Foucault, who warned against domination, became dominant himself. He'd have savored the irony

The New York TimesPaywalled.
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AI distills “the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression.” Its output is, put simply, slop

substack.nybooks.comHNCovered by29 min read
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