Can reading make you happier? (2015)(newyorker.com)

122 points by kawera 2 years ago | 92 comments

How to Be Obscene (1927)(newyorker.com)

45 points by dredmorbius 2 years ago | 33 comments

The Curious Power of Punctuation(newyorker.com)

39 points by pepys 1 month ago | 12 comments

A New Yorker critical essay by Louis Menand on the history of punctuation and how it shapes reading, including what changes when machines write sentences.

A Life-Saving Checklist (2007)(newyorker.com)

47 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 24 comments

Baruch Spinoza and the art of thinking in dangerous times(newyorker.com)

141 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 56 comments

The impossibility of translating Franz Kafka (1999)(newyorker.com)

60 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 37 comments