“To see like a dog in a work of art is to have moral perceptions about human beings”

Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Talking Like a Human Being

Harold Bloom, flatterer. John Ashbery was “THE POET ABSOLUTE,” yet A.R. Ammons’s work was “larger and better” — and then there was Henri Cole

Soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to extend human perception

"AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, " as well as a lot of promising"

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Kathryn Paige Harden on How Genetics Shapes Human Behavior

The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better

A Moral Hierarchy Among Murderers

Why Reading Is Now Restless

Open Thread

The grand tour’s most enduring truth: Even the most miraculous work of art is born not just into history, but also out of it

Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work

See Saturn Like You’ve Never Seen it Before

The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses

Perceptions

‘Debate me!’ doesn’t work. Here are better ways to disagree – and maybe change minds

A Professor Should Work Hard and Grade Easy

Spiraling Out of Control

Trump’s Border Win

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