Ben Lerner’s Transcription and the Literary Readymade

What Happened to the Ancient Bug Giants of 300 Million Years Ago?

Species of leased concern

The Islamification of Britain

With His Grandiose White House Ballroom Plan, Trump Again Asserts the Power To Do As He Pleases

About 80% of breast cancer biopsies turn out benign – new imaging tool promises clearer diagnoses and fewer biopsies

Great diarists open up the entire folio of their lives. Samuel Pepys was a great diarist. He was also a wretched human being

AIs can ‘memorize’ data they shouldn’t. Can they be forced to forget?

Ro Khanna: Congress Has Surrendered on War

Islam and Britain

‘Yes, we can’: a blueprint for a clean economy and healthy society

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Just 25 literary agents collectively represent half of all authors short-listed for major American literary prizes this century

In publications like the New Masses and The Anvil, the proletarian literary movement had a message for Ezra Pound: “See you in hell”

Malcolm Cowley’s Stalinism reveals him to have been a fool and a knave. What does it say about his literary acumen? 

Typists, editors, and arbiters of art. Literary amanuenses like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot shaped modern literature

“Being a literary sex symbol can really take it out of you, making it tougher to maintain your lofty dignity as a quoter of Kafka”

“Authenticity is the supreme literary value, when in fact it is not an aesthetic value at all. Can there be a prescription more discouraging to the imagination?"

John Aubrey, born 400 years ago, lived a prodigiously productive literary life, starting innumerable projects and finishing just a few

What explains the success of Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Kazuo Ishiguro? Publishers want literary fiction that looks like genre fiction

John Brockman was more than a literary agent — he was a networker and salon impresario. Was he also Jeffrey Epstein's conduit to the academy?"

Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound?