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Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno: How recondite mid-century thinkers became villains in America's culture wars
3 days ago
Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno: How recondite mid-century thinkers became villains in America's culture...
Em dashes, bad metaphors, and not-X-but-Y sentence constructions. Did Granta award a prize to an entirely AI-written short story?
3 days ago
Em dashes, bad metaphors, and not-X-but-Y sentence constructions. Did Granta award a...
Is criticism a moral good? In 1968, the question was unavoidable. Now we've forgotten to ask.
3 days ago
Is criticism a moral good? In 1968, the question was unavoidable. Now...
The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakes’ tails and the kookaburra’s cry. Then he started giving lithium to manic-depressives
4 days ago
The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakes’ tails and the kookaburra’s...
"Show don't tell." "Kill your darlings." Writers love rules, even when rules can't solve their problems
4 days ago
"Show don't tell." "Kill your darlings." Writers love rules, even when rules...
Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried with a body more than 2,000 years ago?
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Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried...
At Stanford, undergraduates faking perfection are thrown ungodly sums of money. But what’s it all for?
5 days ago
At Stanford, undergraduates faking perfection are thrown ungodly sums of money. But...
He was imprisoned by the Nazis; she was sent to a sanitorium. For Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, love was not a luxury they could afford
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He was imprisoned by the Nazis; she was sent to a sanitorium...
A.S. Hamrah's film criticism elides the distinction between comic prose-poetry and reflexive contrarianism
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A.S. Hamrah's film criticism elides the distinction between comic prose-poetry and reflexive...
That presidential biography, narrative of a shipwreck, or forgotten war story? “The days when dad books reigned supreme are gone”
6 days ago
That presidential biography, narrative of a shipwreck, or forgotten war story? “The...
The canine gaze. Dogs in Western art are surrogate viewers and compositional anchors
6 days ago
The canine gaze. Dogs in Western art are surrogate viewers and compositional...
On Substack, young “writers” jockey for status, but virtually none are writing about anything other than the world of writers itself
6 days ago
On Substack, young “writers” jockey for status, but virtually none are writing...