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John Wilson and what he is reading next.
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Dangerous asteroids, writing online, a life of Leonardo, becoming an art collector, and more.
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Micah Mattix
Varied Novelistic Styles
Also: Against the parish, against the pedagogy gurus, revisiting the German Peasants’ War, Brazil’s art cannibals, and more.
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Micah Mattix
Saturday Links
On two Thoreaus, revisiting Studs Terkel’s “Division Street,” a mysterious Pompeii fresco, Tom Holland’s “The Lives of Caesars,” a new translation of…
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Micah Mattix

February 2025

What Are AI and Social Media Doing to Us?
Also: English doesn’t exist, against “relevance-mongering,” the chatbots of the dead, in praise of dive bars, Charles de Gaulle’s war memoirs, and more.
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Micah Mattix
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The Last Pharaoh’s Tomb?
Also: A new history of Madrid, Florida’s Walton-DeFuniak Library, portraits behind masterpieces, and more.
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Micah Mattix
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Saturday Links
Robert Frost’s life in poetry, P.G. Wodehouse in America, Homer’s dogs, men and fiction, Europe's disappearing farmers, Marion Milner's method, and…
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Wednesday Links
Ketamine-fueled “psychedelic slumber parties,” the Einstein family at war, redefining the second, ancient diets, and more.
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Micah Mattix
Saturday Links
Rubens’s castle, Dostoevsky’s faith, André Aciman in Rome, Salman Rushdie in court, and more.
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Micah Mattix
Seeing Things
Also: The thankless art of the librettist, a life of Joseph Fessio, Chris Hughes’s Substack, Ethiopian artifacts in the Vatican, and more.
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Micah Mattix
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Saturday Links
Joan Didion’s therapy notes, Vigdis Hjorth, tennis magazine wars, Hugh Kenner on the politics of artists, and more.
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Micah Mattix
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The Forms of Fiction
John Wilson on Hugh Kenner, AI, and the forms fiction takes
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John Wilson
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