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American Loneliness

Spain's largest research organization confronts its dark past

Rage of the Falling Elite

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

Andy Serkis on Animal Farm, Authoritarianism, and Humanizing Monsters

Do Not Spare Yourself

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"A Black Robe Is No Guarantee of Gray Matter"

Poem by Jim Culleny

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

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?

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