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Sep 15, 2026

Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis

Sep 15, 2026

Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese “micro-drama” — under two minutes — may be the defining art form of our era

Sep 15, 2026

Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His criticism now reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying

Sep 12, 2026

Nature rightly insists that we must learn from the tragedy of Jason Arday. Unfortunately the journal has learned the wrong lessons

Sep 12, 2026

Is all the hate for Rachel Cusk’s latest novel merely a misunderstanding of its genre, and the terms the book sets out for itself?

Sep 12, 2026

Would an influential jeremiad against American literature’s devotion to emotional immaturity change writerly habits? Alas, no

Sep 11, 2026

“In Silicon Valley, science fiction is neither a slight nor an incidental entertainment,” says Jill Lepore. “Instead it’s taken as a form of technical writing, a set of assembly instructions”

Sep 11, 2026

In the winter of 1988, Francis Fukuyama wrote an essay while visiting his in-laws in Las Vegas. He's been fending off critics ever since

Sep 11, 2026

The Atomphilosoph. In technologically-driven catastrophes Günther Anders saw cosmic arrogance — but also the need for a new moral code

Sep 10, 2026

Time speeds up and slows down; days blend together to the point of indistinguishability — time disorientation is real