Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.

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Literary scholars think about words that wound with a mix of conceptual incoherence and primness that has become all too common

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Hit by a car, beset by family tragedy, diagnosed with cancer: William T. Vollmann may be dying, but he’s also just finished a 3,000 page opus

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What separates American architecture from Europe's is a matter of scale, speed, and spectacle

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AI: A God we can’t trust

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The Century of Eric Hobsbawm

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Searching for the Unexpected

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There Are Three Types of AI Users

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David Thomson spent 60 years celebrating cinema. Now he thinks movies may have ruined us

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America's foundational literary genre wasn't the novel or the sermon. It was the captivity narrative

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Why the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers

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Amid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their field

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The Secret Origins of 'Conspiracy Theory'

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Does anything I write matter anymore?

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