Archive - Prufrock

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.

Feb 26 •

The Last Pharaoh’s Tomb?

Also: A new history of Madrid, Florida’s Walton-DeFuniak Library, portraits behind masterpieces, and more.

Feb 24 •

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…

Feb 22 •

Wednesday Links

Ketamine-fueled “psychedelic slumber parties,” the Einstein family at war, redefining the second, ancient diets, and more.

Feb 19 •

Rubens’s castle, Dostoevsky’s faith, André Aciman in Rome, Salman Rushdie in court, and more.

Feb 15 •

Also: The thankless art of the librettist, a life of Joseph Fessio, Chris Hughes’s Substack, Ethiopian artifacts in the Vatican, and more.

Feb 12 •

Joan Didion’s therapy notes, Vigdis Hjorth, tennis magazine wars, Hugh Kenner on the politics of artists, and more.

Feb 8 •

The Forms of Fiction

John Wilson on Hugh Kenner, AI, and the forms fiction takes

Feb 7 •

Bookstore Faddishness

Also: Remembering Britain’s mining men, the “prickly architect of Gothic marvels,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Brook,” and more.

Feb 5 •

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