Robert Frost interview + poetry reading (1952)

Bonnie Tyler (1952 – 2026) Singer

Reading Erasmus in an Absurd Age

Somerset Maugham interview (1955)

Open Thread

American Loneliness

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Rage of the Falling Elite

The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them

Friday Poem

Andy Serkis on Animal Farm, Authoritarianism, and Humanizing Monsters

Young John Berryman revered the elder generation of poets. By 1947, though, he diagnosed “a deadly and vacant period” in American poetry

Robert Reich's CEO Pay Chart Is Wrong. Here's the Real Math.

The End of Reading Is Here

Donald Trump Just Demonstrated the Value of Birthright Citizenship

In Praise of the World Cup’s Little Guys

‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI

Bolaño envy. Is Latin American literature, in its totality, more important than literature produced in the United States?

Open Thread

Open Thread

The DOJ Challenges Virginia's 'Assault Firearm' Law and California's Glock Ban