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Can the Dictionary Keep Up?

thenation.com·10w·Hacker News

The Darkness From The Darkness

thebaffler.com·10w·Hacker News, r/TrueReddit

Who Is Thinking?

theamericanscholar.org·10w

Books Are Meant to Be Slow

theatlantic.com

·9w·Hacker News

Shulamith Firestone’s fundamental battle is with the grip which normalcy and conformity have on every human life

libertiesjournal.substack.com·9w·Substack

In the artillery trenches of the first World War, a German Jew named Franz Rosenzweig began to create an audacious philosophical system

wsj.com·9w

António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist who chronicled dictatorship and war, dies aged 83

theguardian.com·10w·Hacker News

Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound?

lithub.com·10w·Hacker News

An American Prophet of the Natural World

theamericanscholar.org·10w

Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’

theguardian.com·11w·Hacker News, Hacker News

A question for astrobiologists: If space dolphins or celestial jellyfishes live somewhere beyond Alpha Centauri, great

reviewcanada.ca·10w·Hacker News

Bolster civil discourse and the Great Books — or purge “commies”? The right is at war with itself over how to reform the university

chronicle.com·10w

The Editor Who Helped Build a Golden Age of American Letters

newrepublic.com·10w·Hacker News

In 2013 Mary Gaitskill told students to “Go home and look between your legs and tell me if that is a social construct.” All hell broke loose

therepublicofletters.substack.com·10w·Substack

The Influence of Anxiety

thepointmag.com·15w·Hacker News, Hacker News

Adam Phillips: "Psychoanalysis is not better than aromatherapy or worse than neurology, it’s simply something for people who find it intriguing"

interviewmagazine.com·10w

A cow carcass, buckets of blood, poisoned dogs: A lot of death went into the making of Chaim Soutine’s art

literaryreview.co.uk·10w

College students’ sense of meaning and purpose is internet-based and transactional. For them, the campus is a hustler’s paradise

lareviewofbooks.org·10w

John Brockman was more than a literary agent — he was a networker and salon impresario. Was he also Jeffrey Epstein's conduit to the academy?"

chronicle.com·10w

The Enemy of the Good

thepointmag.com·12w

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