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Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)(lareviewofbooks.org)

31 points by bryanrasmussen 1 month ago | 34 comments

The Empire of Information(lareviewofbooks.org)

27 points by Petiver 1 month ago | 8 comments

The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard(lareviewofbooks.org)

69 points by Caiero 3 months ago | 15 comments

Man out of Time: The travels and ecstasies of a Russian aesthete(lareviewofbooks.org)

14 points by lermontov 4 months ago | 1 comments

Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks(lareviewofbooks.org)

46 points by Caiero 5 months ago | 9 comments

Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)(lareviewofbooks.org)

88 points by OgsyedIE 8 months ago | 22 comments

Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries(lareviewofbooks.org)

15 points by prismatic 9 months ago | 1 comments

A child in the state of nature(lareviewofbooks.org)

14 points by Caiero 9 months ago | 0 comments

A Child in the State of Nature(lareviewofbooks.org)

7 points by Caiero 10 months ago | 0 comments

Isengard in Oxford(lareviewofbooks.org)

98 points by lermontov 10 months ago | 14 comments

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths(lareviewofbooks.org)

31 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 0 comments

Viral Language(lareviewofbooks.org)

37 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 6 comments

There's a Seeker Born Every Minute (2024)(lareviewofbooks.org)

25 points by tintinnabula 1 year ago | 11 comments

In Its Purest Form(lareviewofbooks.org)

19 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 4 comments

The Heir Conditioner(lareviewofbooks.org)

4 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 0 comments

Reflections on the Mirror Stage(lareviewofbooks.org)

8 points by HR01 1 year ago | 1 comments

Life is more than an engineering problem(lareviewofbooks.org)

369 points by biomene 1 year ago | 225 comments

Los Angeles Review of Books interview in which Julien Crockett talks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and technology's future.

Review: Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart(lareviewofbooks.org)

64 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 47 comments

Richard Dawkins: Philosophical Dead Ends(lareviewofbooks.org)

7 points by HR01 1 year ago | 0 comments

Melons and Melancholy: Review of Steven Shapin's "Eating and Being"(lareviewofbooks.org)

3 points by pepys 1 year ago | 0 comments

Melons and Melancholy: "Eating and Being" illuminates the dynamics of dietetics(lareviewofbooks.org)

12 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 0 comments

A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide(lareviewofbooks.org)

3 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 0 comments

A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide: The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition(lareviewofbooks.org)

39 points by NaOH 2 years ago | 18 comments

Weird Nonfiction(lareviewofbooks.org)

65 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 19 comments

I Am Herman Melville(lareviewofbooks.org)

32 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 6 comments

Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)(lareviewofbooks.org)

91 points by lordleft 2 years ago | 34 comments

America's War on Theater(lareviewofbooks.org)

25 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 0 comments

The Last Avant-Garde(lareviewofbooks.org)

31 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 10 comments

To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun”(lareviewofbooks.org)

34 points by dredmorbius 2 years ago | 12 comments

The Bulgarian Computer's Global Reach: On Victor Petrov's "Balkan Cyberia"(lareviewofbooks.org)

80 points by martinlaz 2 years ago | 41 comments

Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters(lareviewofbooks.org)

161 points by blegh 2 years ago | 68 comments

Why Hitch Still Matters: On Christopher Hitchens's "A Hitch in Time"(lareviewofbooks.org)

8 points by pepys 2 years ago | 1 comments

Revisting Madonna-Ology in the Era of Taylor Swift Studies(lareviewofbooks.org)

38 points by moomin 2 years ago | 30 comments

The Failed Saint: On George Orwell's India(lareviewofbooks.org)

71 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 60 comments

What Happened to David Graeber?(lareviewofbooks.org)

139 points by devonnull 2 years ago | 94 comments

The Hold of the Dead over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore(lareviewofbooks.org)

18 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 1 comments

No Fap: A Cultural History of Anti-Masturbation(lareviewofbooks.org)

9 points by z7 2 years ago | 0 comments

Acid's First Convert, Cary Grant: On Edward J. Delaney's "The Acrobat"(lareviewofbooks.org)

64 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 8 comments

Reading in the Conglomerate Era(lareviewofbooks.org)

27 points by lxm 3 years ago | 2 comments

In Praise of Slowness (2017)(lareviewofbooks.org)

29 points by the-mitr 3 years ago | 5 comments

Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination(lareviewofbooks.org)

22 points by taubek 3 years ago | 5 comments

The Work of the Audiobook(lareviewofbooks.org)

52 points by url 3 years ago | 53 comments

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History(lareviewofbooks.org)

44 points by lermontov 3 years ago | 37 comments

Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade”(lareviewofbooks.org)

22 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 11 comments

Epicurus for Our Time(lareviewofbooks.org)

76 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 41 comments