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What's so great about the great books?
A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult, too problematic, and too white—and explains what we gain by reading themWhen she was in her early twenties, then-aspiring writer Naomi Kanakia set out to read the Great Books—humankind’s most highly re...
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The last human job
A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."—The NationWith the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automat...
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What would you do alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine?
A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addictionWhy do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine—to the point of death? In this pathbreaking ...
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The ultraview effect
What astronauts' extraordinary experiences of awe and humility teach us about humanity. What is it like to stand in the shadow of Earth and the Moon and look out at the vastness of the Milky Way? To confront a view so grand it cannot be reproduced in a photo? These are the questions space anthrop...
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Theory for moving houses
You are asking me where I live and it’s making me think all these things about space, where I start and end in space and where space starts and ends in me and when, in space, I am a body and when I’m a book, in space. So begins Renee Gladman's Theory for Moving Houses, and with these lines we ...
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Rescuing the enlightenment from the europeans
In Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans, Nikita Dhawan examines key theoretical conflicts between postcolonial studies and interlocutors of the Enlightenment, from Kant to the present to make the case for rescuing the best aspects of the Enlightenment in order to further the critical pro...
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Pathemata, or, the story of my mouth
***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay***Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009’s Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pa...
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