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Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest

themarginalian.org7:57 PM UTC◆◆ 2 SOURCES

How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love

themarginalian.org7:00 PM UTC◆◆ 2 SOURCES

Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them

3quarksdaily.com3:45 PM UTC

Thursday Poem

3quarksdaily.com12:21 PM UTC

The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

themarginalian.org11:09 PM UTC

Memory Architecture

longreads.com11:00 AM UTC

Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists

nplusonemag.com1:01 AM UTC

Going Up and Going In

longreads.com10:00 AM UTC

Who Can Solve Gerhard Berger’s Quiz?

longreads.com6:51 PM UTC

Revolutions

longreads.com4:30 PM UTC

Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded

commentary.org2:08 PM UTC

The Latest Chapter In American Military Muddling

noemamag.com4:18 PM UTC

Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography”

porticoquarterly.com9:01 PM UTC

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

uchicago.edu1:06 AM UTC

Introducing Noema Issue VII: The Next Axial Age

noemamag.com3:27 PM UTC

Admired in his time by Dickens, Byron, and Mary Shelley, Washington Irving’s reputation has been in steep decline ever since

clereviewofbooks.com3:13 AM UTC

Few American writers have skewered the self-deluding barbarity that is American foreign policy with as much force as Dwight Macdonald

bostonreview.net7:01 PM UTC

W.G. Sebald’s poetic, picturesque accounts of Austrian literature are, at crucial points, gravely distorted

clereviewofbooks.com8:01 PM UTC

AI Needs Public Feedback at Scale Before It’s Too Late

noemamag.com3:11 PM UTC

The Nature Of Free Will In The Age Of AI

noemamag.com3:10 PM UTC

After a minor renaissance in the late 20th century, narrative poetry is being eclipsed by lyric poetry. That’s a shame

substack.com10:46 PM UTC

Editing was largely absent from British publishing until midcentury, emerging only as firms grew too big to take risks on new writers

porticoquarterly.com10:46 PM UTC

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

noemamag.com1:10 PM UTC

As AI eats the internet, we’re witnessing the end of the messy, effortful, contestable business of finding things out

bostonreview.net1:01 AM UTC

Your Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped

noemamag.com4:29 PM UTC

We Can Already Eradicate Mosquitoes If We Want. Why Don’t We?

3quarksdaily.com5:45 PM UTC

David Eagleman & Jack Lindsey: What Is Claude Thinking But Not Saying?

3quarksdaily.com4:45 PM UTC

From Mecca To Ground Zero (And Back)

3quarksdaily.com3:34 PM UTC

Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex

themarginalian.org4:20 AM UTC

Puzzles for Fun and Profit

3quarksdaily.com10:00 AM UTC

The 17 Minutes That Changed America

longreads.com5:30 PM UTC

A Mississippi Death Penalty Jury Was Seated. With One Black Juror.

longreads.com11:00 AM UTC

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

themarginalian.org1:50 AM UTC

Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses

lareviewofbooks.org1:01 AM UTC

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

themarginalian.org8:21 PM UTC

Optimized Offspring

noemamag.com5:09 PM UTC

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

themarginalian.org9:25 PM UTC

A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this supremely insouciant, glamorous writer was once boring

thebulwark.com11:01 PM UTC

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

themarginalian.org4:24 PM UTC

Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?

newrepublic.com2:08 PM UTC

Chock-full of highly original description and impressive sentences, recent literary fiction is boring and utterly devoid of fun

substack.com1:34 AM UTC

What is intelligence? A vice president at Google aims to find out, ignoring decades of lessons from cognitive science and linguistics

inference-review.com1:06 AM UTC

Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive

poetryfoundation.org3:13 AM UTC

History is the story of corrupt elites and the virtuous activists who oppose them. Or so it was, formulaically, for Howard Zinn

newrepublic.com12:16 PM UTC

“My wonderful horseykins,” “my little sperm whale.” If Chekhov’s love life was epistolary, what are we to make of his fondness for brothels?

wustl.edu10:02 PM UTC

There's a name for demanding a group publicly recite a political position as the price of belonging: illiberalism

skidmore.edu10:46 PM UTC

For John Berger, the dead and the living were interdependent — and the stronger the link, the happier and healthier the society

The Guardian10:46 PM UTC

Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry have quietly borrowed each other's language for decades, each remaking itself in the image of the other

thelampmagazine.com12:01 AM UTC

AI poses a moral hazard, but it may also render unintelligible cultural concepts like merit, authenticity, expertise, and deliberation

thepointmag.com3:04 AM UTC

An enfeebled grip, a depressingly slow gait, and the pitying kindness of others — Theodore Dalrymple searches for the consolations of age

newenglishreview.org1:01 AM UTC

"Whatever potential hazards and unintended consequences flow from AI’s mass adoption, my own experience using it contradicted much of what I was being told"

yalereview.org9:01 PM UTC

The “Conformation Show” and the Pursuit of the Ideal Dog

longreads.com11:00 AM UTC◆◆ 2 SOURCES

This Is the Biggest Obstacle to New Cancer Cures

3quarksdaily.com12:01 PM UTC

Friday Poem

3quarksdaily.com11:18 AM UTC

Check Your Head

3quarksdaily.com9:00 AM UTC

So Spin Me, Baby, One More Time!

3quarksdaily.com8:00 AM UTC

Pauline Kael was useless as a guide to movies. She was indispensable as an autobiographer of the Age of Cinema

hedgehogreview.com12:01 AM UTC

Painting as a Space for Longing

3quarksdaily.com5:56 PM UTC

Many Thousands Gone*

3quarksdaily.com4:51 PM UTC

The Anatomy of a Journalism Scandal

longreads.com11:00 AM UTC

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jon Ronson

longreads.com10:00 AM UTC

The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

themarginalian.org4:24 AM UTC

Gooey, disgusting AI slop is everywhere these days, including the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Here comes the AI police

derekthompson.org12:02 AM UTC

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

themarginalian.org4:49 AM UTC

Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president’s son. A fiasco ensued

yalereview.org1:01 AM UTC

The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship

themarginalian.org8:21 PM UTC

What Happens When a Kid’s Robot Best Friend Dies?

longreads.com5:55 PM UTC

A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go

themarginalian.org4:00 AM UTC

In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word

porticoquarterly.com11:01 PM UTC

After Work, We’ll Have Each Other

asteriskmag.com12:00 AM UTC

Why We Like Things

longreads.com5:30 PM UTC

Rachel Entrekin Is Ready to Take What’s Hers

longreads.com11:00 AM UTC

Subjective Perspective Makes Objective Reality ‘Everywhere Whole’

noemamag.com4:27 PM UTC

How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"

deadlanguagesociety.com1:22 AM UTC

Frank O'Hara packed 100 references into 500 lines. Even his most devoted readers miss most of them

poetryfoundation.org1:34 AM UTC

When The AI Says To Kill

noemamag.com4:30 PM UTC

Leszek Ko?akowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him

porticoquarterly.com12:01 AM UTC

Who is the greatest short story writer of all time? According to one data cruncher, it’s not Chekhov or Barthelme, but Joyce Carol Oates

substack.com3:13 AM UTC

In weird girl literature detached protagonists have bad jobs, slightly-happier best friends, and troubled relationships. Are the novels any good?

woman-of-letters.com7:01 PM UTC

What To Expect When You’re Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems)

asteriskmag.com12:00 AM UTC

The smorgasbord: What began as modest, rule-bound dining in Sweden evolved into something akin to a “pagan feast” in the United States

cabinetmagazine.org8:01 PM UTC

Despite the praise it received from T.S. Eliot, Auden’s early poetry, while striking, was neither particularly coherent nor good

freebeacon.com10:02 PM UTC

Terry Eagleton: “Few acts of self-sacrifice can compare with sitting through Oxford High Table stone-cold sober for more than three decades”

commonwealmagazine.org10:46 PM UTC

The Tantalizing Possibility Of Locating Consciousness In The Brain

noemamag.com5:16 PM UTC

Why We Like Things

asteriskmag.com12:00 AM UTC

“We have inherited the surfaces of decadence — luxury, excess, artifice, bodily display — but have surrendered the fin de siècle’s commitment to pleasure”

The Guardian3:04 AM UTC

From The Trap Of Geopolitics To A Geo-Civilizational Paradigm

noemamag.com1:15 PM UTC

What made the late-80s culture wars distinct wasn't ideology alone, but a landscape where art itself still mattered. Paul Elie explains

lareviewofbooks.org1:01 AM UTC

Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest

themarginalian.org7:57 PM UTC◆◆ 2 SOURCES

How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love

themarginalian.org7:00 PM UTC◆◆ 2 SOURCES

Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them

3quarksdaily.com3:45 PM UTC

Thursday Poem

3quarksdaily.com12:21 PM UTC

The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

themarginalian.org11:09 PM UTC

Memory Architecture

longreads.com11:00 AM UTC

Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists

nplusonemag.com1:01 AM UTC

Going Up and Going In

longreads.com10:00 AM UTC

Who Can Solve Gerhard Berger’s Quiz?

longreads.com6:51 PM UTC

Revolutions

longreads.com4:30 PM UTC

Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded

commentary.org2:08 PM UTC

The Latest Chapter In American Military Muddling

noemamag.com4:18 PM UTC

Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography”

porticoquarterly.com9:01 PM UTC

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

uchicago.edu1:06 AM UTC

Introducing Noema Issue VII: The Next Axial Age

noemamag.com3:27 PM UTC

Admired in his time by Dickens, Byron, and Mary Shelley, Washington Irving’s reputation has been in steep decline ever since

clereviewofbooks.com3:13 AM UTC

Few American writers have skewered the self-deluding barbarity that is American foreign policy with as much force as Dwight Macdonald

bostonreview.net7:01 PM UTC

W.G. Sebald’s poetic, picturesque accounts of Austrian literature are, at crucial points, gravely distorted

clereviewofbooks.com8:01 PM UTC

AI Needs Public Feedback at Scale Before It’s Too Late

noemamag.com3:11 PM UTC

The Nature Of Free Will In The Age Of AI

noemamag.com3:10 PM UTC

After a minor renaissance in the late 20th century, narrative poetry is being eclipsed by lyric poetry. That’s a shame

substack.com10:46 PM UTC

Editing was largely absent from British publishing until midcentury, emerging only as firms grew too big to take risks on new writers

porticoquarterly.com10:46 PM UTC

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

noemamag.com1:10 PM UTC

As AI eats the internet, we’re witnessing the end of the messy, effortful, contestable business of finding things out

bostonreview.net1:01 AM UTC

Your Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped

noemamag.com4:29 PM UTC

We Can Already Eradicate Mosquitoes If We Want. Why Don’t We?

3quarksdaily.com5:45 PM UTC

David Eagleman & Jack Lindsey: What Is Claude Thinking But Not Saying?

3quarksdaily.com4:45 PM UTC

From Mecca To Ground Zero (And Back)

3quarksdaily.com3:34 PM UTC

Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex

themarginalian.org4:20 AM UTC

Puzzles for Fun and Profit

3quarksdaily.com10:00 AM UTC

The 17 Minutes That Changed America

longreads.com5:30 PM UTC

A Mississippi Death Penalty Jury Was Seated. With One Black Juror.

longreads.com11:00 AM UTC

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

themarginalian.org1:50 AM UTC

Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses

lareviewofbooks.org1:01 AM UTC

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

themarginalian.org8:21 PM UTC

Optimized Offspring

noemamag.com5:09 PM UTC

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

themarginalian.org9:25 PM UTC

A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this supremely insouciant, glamorous writer was once boring

thebulwark.com11:01 PM UTC

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

themarginalian.org4:24 PM UTC

Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?

newrepublic.com2:08 PM UTC

Chock-full of highly original description and impressive sentences, recent literary fiction is boring and utterly devoid of fun

substack.com1:34 AM UTC

What is intelligence? A vice president at Google aims to find out, ignoring decades of lessons from cognitive science and linguistics

inference-review.com1:06 AM UTC

Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive

poetryfoundation.org3:13 AM UTC

History is the story of corrupt elites and the virtuous activists who oppose them. Or so it was, formulaically, for Howard Zinn

newrepublic.com12:16 PM UTC

“My wonderful horseykins,” “my little sperm whale.” If Chekhov’s love life was epistolary, what are we to make of his fondness for brothels?

wustl.edu10:02 PM UTC

There's a name for demanding a group publicly recite a political position as the price of belonging: illiberalism

skidmore.edu10:46 PM UTC

For John Berger, the dead and the living were interdependent — and the stronger the link, the happier and healthier the society

The Guardian10:46 PM UTC

Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry have quietly borrowed each other's language for decades, each remaking itself in the image of the other

thelampmagazine.com12:01 AM UTC

AI poses a moral hazard, but it may also render unintelligible cultural concepts like merit, authenticity, expertise, and deliberation

thepointmag.com3:04 AM UTC

An enfeebled grip, a depressingly slow gait, and the pitying kindness of others — Theodore Dalrymple searches for the consolations of age

newenglishreview.org1:01 AM UTC

"Whatever potential hazards and unintended consequences flow from AI’s mass adoption, my own experience using it contradicted much of what I was being told"

yalereview.org9:01 PM UTC

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