A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music

Solvej Balle’s Seven-Volume Time Loop

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

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Tod Machover receives George Peabody Medal for contributions to music and technology

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What Might The Next Axial Age Look Like?

Another Chance for Trump to Cash Out

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Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations

Judge Ross Should Have Been Punished For Abdicating Her Judicial Power To Her Law Clerks

These Seven AI Rings Translate Sign Language in Real Time

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

Imagine a metastasizing heap of incalculable, forgotten junk. That’s what we’re all storing away in “The Cloud”

Trump’s Border Win

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L.A. Can’t Fix Its Mansion Tax Mistake

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