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The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI

How to Lose a Library

Brain on Books

I Began with Sound

Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their libraries

A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress

Carolyn Merchant’s Vision of Nature, 40 Years Later (2021)

Cooking, Monasteries, Arithmetic: The History of Rules

B-Sides: Reading, Race, and “Robert’s Rules of Order”

Data-Free Disney

Where Is All the Book Data?

What Counts as a Bestseller?

“Beowulf”: A Horror Show

Losing discoveries so others can find them

In Praise of Search Tools

The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how science fiction works

A Labyrinth for Our Time

A new biography of Louise Fitzhugh, who wrote “Harriet the Spy”

The Spy Who Came in from the Carrel

James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere

J. M. Keynes and the Visible Hands

Counter-Histories of the Internet (2019)

E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75

Can Smart Cities be equitable cities?

Intellectual Alchemists

B-Sides: Graham Greene’s “Stamboul Train”

Public Books Database

Ian Bogost on games, doorknobs, and general readers

Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall

Can a Recipe Save Your Life?

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