Cut-up poetry meets cut-up music on an album that must be heard to be believed.

To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years […]

Jana Bazeed discusses the ressurected topic of Homer's wine-dark sea and how language shapes our everyday perception.

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From the archive: "Learning to Read the Signs of Heaven: Plotinus on the Art and Philosophy of Divination", by Max Wade

Exclusive: In her first media interview since fleeing Russia, Rita Flores describes her three years of being run by the FSB

What we can learn from the published correspondence of literary critic and academic titan Harold Bloom.

When the art market can get by with flashy and ineffectual figurative paintings that are easy to sell on Instagram, it no longer has any reason to care about what’s going on in artistic subcultures. I...

Anthony Gottlieb: Zombie iPocalypse - The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society by James Marriott

In the Timaeus, Plato famously characterised time as ‘an image of eternity moving according to number’. The former is a derivative, partial reflection of the l…

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Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

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Read the declaration and add your name.

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are full of ghastly crimes, but the true horror lies in their confessions, Emily Ogden writes.

A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.

The novelist on Herman Melville's tale and the sublime.

Academic censorship is very real.

[Remember, please use the Index to find all articles on a given subject—such as my previous sixteen essays on Rollins, with more to come!]

Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discrimination Gloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92. Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her”, a statement shared to her Instagram page said. Continue reading...

An interview with Pangram founder and CEO Max Spero on how AI writing has flooded the internet, why it matters, and why it’s worth cleaning up