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At 83, Terry Eagleton is fixated on death, which he unnervingly describes as “the erotic bliss of yielding to an impregnable power" theguardian.com/books/2026/s…
In the winter of 1988, Francis Fukuyama wrote an essay while visiting his in-laws in Las Vegas. He's been fending off critics ever since persuasion.community/p/the-b…
“In Silicon Valley, science fiction is neither a slight nor an incidental entertainment,” says Jill Lepore. “Instead it’s taken as a form of technical writing, a set of assembly instructions” theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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The Atomphilosoph. In technologically driven catastrophes, Günther Anders saw cosmic arrogance — and also the need for a new moral code compactmag.com/article/gunth…
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Nature rightly insists that we must learn from the tragedy of Jason Arday. Unfortunately the journal has learned the wrong lessons chronicle.com/article/jason-…
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Would an influential jeremiad against American literature’s devotion to emotional immaturity change writerly habits? Alas, no thenation.com/article/cultur…
Is all the hate for Rachel Cusk’s latest novel merely a misunderstanding of its genre, and the terms the book sets out for itself? newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p…
Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His criticism now reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying substack.magazinenongrata.co…
Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis literaryreview.co.uk/zombie-…
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Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese “micro-drama” — under two minutes — may be the defining art form of our era newleftreview.org/issues/ii1…
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Great diarists open up the entire folio of their lives. Samuel Pepys was a great diarist. He was also a wretched human being nytimes.com/2026/03/30/books…
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Uncanny and vaguely malevolent, the institutional Gothic style replaces bloodthirsty lords with soulless corporations... thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/b…
“The humanities are not a system for the production of positive ‘research results.’ They are a practice of self-cultivation, or they are nothing” chronicle.com/article/how-hu…
In the Victorian era, discoveries upended humanity's place in the cosmos. Tennyson turned this metaphysical crisis into poetry slate.com/culture/2026/02/al…
In the 1950s, Foucault sped around Sweden — quite dangerously — in a spectacular Jaguar lithub.com/an-archive-of-ass…
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“Most people who subscribe to scientific materialism take it to be so obviously correct that it could not be denied by any rational person who truly understood it” newyorker.com/culture/the-we…
The film critic A.S. Hamrah has no use for plot description, boosterism, or takedowns. He focuses, instead, on continuities and contradictions lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Confessions of a midlist writer. Once it was okay for a writer’s debut to sell only a few thousand copies. No longer honest-broker.com/p/the-day-…
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“What if the identity politics undergirding “left ‘cancel culture’” was always pretty much the same as the identity politics of offended Christians?” chronicle.com/article/the-in…
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