Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

The Remarkable Life of Plants

Does a distant alien world harbor promising signs of life? Most astrobiologists say no

Open Thread

Instacart Is Suing New York City Over Its $22.13 Minimum Wage for Delivery Drivers

The Pope and the AI Profiteers

How Israel Can Prevent the Next October 7

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

The Rise of the UnJews

How Artemis II livestreamed hi-def videos and images from the moon to Earth

Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art?

Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life

The Revolutionary Life of George Forster

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

The Three Elements of the Good Life

Open Thread

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”

How Do You Define 'Ceasefire'?

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