A New Form Of Life

Which Future for Online Life?

J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life

The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life

Anita Brookner: Art and Life

Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese “micro-drama” — lasting under two minutes — may be the defining art form of our era

Open Thread

What Amodei’s Call for an AI Pause Gets Wrong

Who Will Do the World’s “Most Impossible Job”?

Major Questions, Nondelegation, and the Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada

When Words Are No Longer for Us

“In Silicon Valley, science fiction is neither a slight nor an incidental entertainment,” says Jill Lepore. “Instead it’s taken as a form of technical writing, a set of assembly instructions”

How to Change Your Life

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life

Why Snake Embryos Form in Spirals

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life

The Cost of Not Building Data Centers

Why is there controversy around OpenAI’s Millennium Prize maths breakthrough?

After an 8-Year Journey, Orbiters Are About to Give Us a Fresh Look at Mercury