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"...I considered, instead, describing the little pools of saturated ink in the manuscript poems of Emily Dickinson, where she paused and rested her pen while gathering thought for her next astonishing turn."
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Just over twenty years ago, in April 2006, British media gave generous space to film and photographs of a sled hauled over a vast expanse of snow by a
“Whenever liberalism is under threat from fanatical ideologies, The Magic Mountainwill remain relevant—which makes Morten Høi Jensen’s book only too timely”
Adam Kirsch on Morten Høi Jensen and Thomas Mann
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Andrew Katzenstein on the pathologies of Mets fandom
One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.
Adam Kirsch on Thomas Mann finding the cure in The Magic Mountain
Andrew Arsan on the history of authoritarianism and democracy in the Middle East
“While the Tories are being outflanked on the right by Reform, Labour is being outflanked on the left by the Greens, and the two-party system that had for so long seemed a fact of life is dissolving before our eyes.” —Geoffrey Wheatcroft
“According to the Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, ‘[The company’s guidelines for Claude have] the vibe of a letter from a deceased parent sealed until adulthood.’ It’s an unsettling analogy considering that the dead parent, in this case, is the human race.” —Meghan O’Gieblyn
“By putting their bodies at the mercy of the Israeli state,“ writes Piper French, “the flotilla activists are...pressuring their countries to uphold the principles of international law that Israel is daring them to disregard.”
In writing The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann struggled to free himself from his artistic preoccupation with sickness and death.
The investigation into the origin of papyrus fragments that the owners of Hobby Lobby purchased from an Oxford scholar underscores papyrology’s long history of shady deals and ulterior motives.
When a ship sends out a Mayday signal, nearby vessels have a duty to come to its aid. This is a core tenet of maritime law. But on Monday, May 18, when a
In two recent books the scholar and commentator Fawaz Gerges asks why the region remains a bastion of authoritarian government, prone to conflict and instability, instead of becoming an economic succe...
Metaphors of parenting have defined our understanding of AI, but lately the parent-child relationship between creator and machine is becoming reversed.
