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Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson's View of Reality Came to Be

A brief history of the word "fuck"

The Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

Everything we know about spies is wrong

Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America by Surprise

Page Turns: Literary Translations on the American Ballet Theater's Summer Stage

What the decentralized nature of Anonymous tells us about its power

Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive

The Delusion of the Polygraph

A Deal with the Devil

The rarest book in American literature: Poe's Tamerlane

How babies and young children learn to understand language

Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize

The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

Soil as Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia

I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton

Can you really explain the difference? Subtle nuances of English words

The Collapse of Small Press Distribution

"She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play

Who Killed Prestige TV? Toward a "Good Fan" Theory of Television

A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets' Brawl of '68

Not Everyone Agreed with Einstein

Despite some pitfalls, Killers of the Flower Moon swells with humanity and heart

What Is Left Unsaid

How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments

The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel (2011)

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