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“Austen offers not a portrait but a mirror, and a woman reads Austen not to find Austen, but herself”
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“Austen offers not a portrait but a mirror, and a woman reads...
“Schadenfreude” is easy; but “as,” ‘like,” and “but” are hard. Every lexicographer knows it's the short words that are hardest to define
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“Schadenfreude” is easy; but “as,” ‘like,” and “but” are hard. Every lexicographer...
During the 1890s, astronomers were in a state of epistemic turmoil over the prospect of life on Mars. Turns out they saw what they wanted to see
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During the 1890s, astronomers were in a state of epistemic turmoil over...
Anthony Appiah: “I don’t think encouraging people to resent everything they think is a moral mistake made by everybody else is a good way to prepare yourself for a happy life”
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Anthony Appiah: “I don’t think encouraging people to resent everything they think...
Luigi Pirandello is a half-forgotten castaway of European letters. Are we living in his world?
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Luigi Pirandello is a half-forgotten castaway of European letters. Are we living...
Edward Gorey’s macabre art is enigmatic, allusive, silly, somber, and haunted by the miseries of childhood
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Edward Gorey’s macabre art is enigmatic, allusive, silly, somber, and haunted by...
Tolkien’s reading of Beowulf, and his ability to blend the epic with the novel, fiction and scholarship, shaped his sense of story
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Tolkien’s reading of Beowulf, and his ability to blend the epic with...
The AI era might spur political revolt, but it will certainly spur a battle over who owns the infrastructure of intelligent thought
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The AI era might spur political revolt, but it will certainly spur...
“Schopenhauer wanted to outdo Hegel in intellectual grandeur, but his work has a cracker-barrel quality to it”
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“Schopenhauer wanted to outdo Hegel in intellectual grandeur, but his work has...
Two millennia ago, a few hundred people convened in an Anatolian backwater. They created the core doctrine of orthodox Christianity
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Two millennia ago, a few hundred people convened in an Anatolian backwater...
What explains the success of Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Kazuo Ishiguro? Publishers want literary fiction that looks like genre fiction
5 days ago
What explains the success of Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Kazuo Ishiguro...
Music can calm, soothe, and delight. It can also provoke, disturb, bite. And for that, you need dissonance
5 days ago
Music can calm, soothe, and delight. It can also provoke, disturb, bite...