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Marilyn Monroe at 100

Graham McCann at the Dublin Review of Books: In ‘An Arundel Tomb’ Philip Larkin reflected on the shallowness that settles like a mist over the deepest...

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Friday Poem

I Saw Myself I saw myself a ring of bone in the clear stream of all of it and vowed always to be open to it that all of it might flow through and then...

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The Talented Ms. Highsmith

Elena Blanco in The Yale Review: I first read Patricia Highsmith’s novels in the fall of 1994. I was twenty and living in a room in her house in Tegna...

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Librarians on Libraries

From The New York Times: This year, Americans are marking the 250th anniversary of the country’s founding. The nation’s librarians are celebrating a m...

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Knowledge Lost in Information (Implanted Beliefs, part 2)

by Tim Sommers This is the second of two parts [part 1 is here] on whether implanted beliefs can count as knowledge. The question matters outside scie...

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Founding Rapist: Judging Thomas Jefferson by the Standards of His Time

by Robert Jensen Conclusive evidence is in from new DNA tests: Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings. To put it more bluntly: The prim...

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Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History

Shaul Magid in the Los Angeles Review of Books: Anti-Zionism is not new among Jews; in fact, it was arguably created by Jews. Over its long history, J...

Oct 1, 2026 • Read Preview →

The Dot and the Swarm: Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson

Ethan Mollick at One Useful Thing: I generally think I have done a good job anticipating the direction and pace of AI over the few years I have been w...

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Robert Wright: AI Alignment Is a Moral Problem, Not a Technical One

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The Original Bitch

Eleanor Johnson in Harper’s Magazine: The most enduring and influential monstrous bitch is the she-demon Lamashtu. She shape-shifts, appearing in diff...

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They Kept Outsiders Away for 500 Years but Their World Is About to Change

Ben Ryder Howe at the New York Times: Over the last 500-some years, the Guna have proved uniquely successful at keeping intruders at bay, at times thr...

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John Berger: From Life

Zach Gibson at the LARB: IN 2009, BRITISH ARTIST, writer, and broadcaster John Berger (1926–2017) donated his personal archive to the British Library....

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On Annie Dillard

Grace Glass at n+1: Annie Dillard was born the day Hitler died, eighteen days after FDR died, as if in her the whole history and destiny of America wa...

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Thursday Poem

Remember Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at d...

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A Digital Cell Predicts Which Drugs Will Be Most Effective in Deadly Breast Cancer

Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: Tailoring cancer treatments is a science and an art. The same type of tumor can behave very differently from one person...

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