literature @uniofoxford via @rhodes_trust, before @english_harvard. i like poems.
Joined December 2020
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The author is dead! (Crowd cheers) But the author function lives on (crowd boos) Rather than attributing the text to a single origin point, we as critics must map the complex web of institutions and power relations that constitute "authorship" (crowd yawns, disperses)
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one often hears of essays crashing the LRB website--Emily Wilson on Nolan, Lauren Oyler on Jia Tolentino--as a mark of a true literary "event." But is it possible that their servers are just really limited in capacity?
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WIRED sent me to Mississippi to report a different kind of feature about reading. Why are third-graders there acing standardized tests but older students are still struggling with comprehension? What does measuring "literacy" even mean? wired.com/story/mississippi-…
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You’re telling me the Startup that thinks it’s a festival isn’t what it seems?
Phia — the buzzy shopping app co-founded by Bill Gates' daughter, Phoebe — is claiming credit for online sales it didn’t actually drive, a Bloomberg investigation found. Read our exclusive story: bloom.bg/4wErGxe
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"Not all human experiences are subject to progress." —Zadie Smith for @nybooks nybooks.com/articles/2026/06…
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“Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him.”
Nabokov to his New Yorker editor.
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The PPEL major at Hamilton is quickly becoming one of the most serious in the country.
Very excited to announce that @desireedesierto and I will be joining the Hamilton School at the University of Florida hamilton.ufl.edu/ in Fall 2026.
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“A degree in medieval history won’t help you understand current events” they said
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Rare video of Chief Justice Roberts in oral argument after making that statement.
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on the irony of the AI industry's adoption / appropriation of "taste" newyorker.com/culture/infini…
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Newly released deposition videos are providing a never-before-seen look at two of the people responsible for the largest mass termination of federal grants in the National Endowment for the Humanities' history. abcnews.link/p5u6o3A
there are few things worse for an already impoverished culture when notably connected, notably untalented people try really, really hard to be iconic.
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The juxtaposition of the Nuzzi/Lizza/Bobby Kennedy circus and this absolutely heart-wrenching essay from Kennedy's cousin, Tatiana Schlossberg, is pretty profound newyorker.com/culture/the-we…
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Congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel ‘Flesh’ won the 2025 Booker Prize.
An excerpt of ‘Flesh’ is available to read here.
granta.com/flesh/
