With The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan Earns His Place as Hollywood's Great Liberal Humanist 

In Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ the Fall of Troy Is a Warning to Us All

Every era gets ‘The Odyssey’ it deserves

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

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Loitering towards war

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

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

Diana Grass: Listening to the body’s language

How AI Is Rewriting Human Nature

Illinois Will Finally Stop Stripping People of Their Home Equity—3 Years After the Supreme Court Outlawed It

Saul Bellow peeked under Allan Bloom's kimono and called it a tribute. Was the betrayal worth it?

He Who "Would Be a Great Lawyer" "Must First Consent to Become a Great Drudge"

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Five graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more dangerous

“I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” 

PEN America was founded in 1922 to protect free speech and defend writers. That creed has developed a blind spot

Today in Supreme Court History: July 11, 1921

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission and the dismantling of the Constitution

Tiny infrared chip could improve detection of gases and heat

Young J. G. Ballard and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese camp for a two and a half years — he called it the best time of his life