The Literature of Limits IV: Hinduism, Forms, and the Infinite

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AI and the Global South’s Next Leap Forward

No Retroactive Pseudonymization in Federal Court Under California "Safe at Home" Program

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

For Warmth: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Poetic Antidote to Anger

This Forest Rodent Serves as a Reservoir for the Deadly Mpox Virus

Today in Supreme Court History: February 14, 1845

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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

Today in Supreme Court History: February 15, 1790

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

“Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society”

An Infinite Sadness

Reading Infinite Jest Now

The Limits to Trump’s Power in America and the World

Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Empathy

Larry Levis died in 1996, at the age of 49. His posthumously published poetry forms a towering body of work

‘All It Is Is Pain’: The Olympian Testing the Limits of Endurance

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

Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere

How to write a novel for the age of the algorithm? Look to the literature of the past. Look to Thomas Bernhard