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Systems Approach·

Textbooks in Tokenland

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Slate Magazine·

The Real Horror of Backrooms Is the Wall-to-Wall Carpeting.

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lithub.com·

Lit Hub Weekly: June 1 – 5, 2026

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lithub.com·

Lit Hub Daily: June 2, 2026

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mastodon.world·

"Not all human experiences are subject to progress." —Zadie Smith for The New York Review of Books <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/0...

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Two Coats of Paint·

Art and the adolescent impulse

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