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The Odd Case of the Novel 'Murder Bimbo,' and More
The Mellon Foundation has put huge sums of money toward the idea that arts and letters is not for wisdom, but for advocacy...
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A Soul for Claude, Literary Misunderstandings, and More
Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality?
Feb 12
Good Politics, Larry Levis’s Confessionalism, and More
At a film screening Salvador Dalí, in a fit of envy, turned on the director: “Joseph Cornell, you are a plagiarist of my unconscious mind!”...
Feb 11
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Martinis in Paris, the Great American Novel, and More
The overworked phrase “rewiring your brain” suggests mechanical precision.
Feb 10
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George Scialabba, A.S. Hamrah, and More
George Scialabba is no fan of political theory: “Imagination, sympathy, solidarity — by whatever name: this is the true engine of political progress”...
Feb 9
Socialist Aesthetics, Literary Amanuenses, and More
Typists, editors, arbiters of art.
Feb 6
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The Borderlands of Sleep, Larry Levis, and More
Somnambulism, hypnagogia, reverie — the borderlands of sleep are patrolled by poets, novelists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts...
Feb 5
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When Michelangelo Met Titian, Psychology Experiments, and More
Before 1970, humans were rational. After 1970, irrational. What changed? The nature of psychology experiments... more »
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