Second Chances(nybooks.com)

7 points by samclemens 1 month ago | 2 comments

A New York Review essay by Jonathan Lethem on the reissue of Wilfrid Sheed's 1966 novel Office Politics and the popularity of literary reprints.

Camus on Tour(nybooks.com)

23 points by lermontov 3 years ago | 1 comments

The Inventor of Magical Realism(nybooks.com)

53 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 21 comments

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History(nybooks.com)

73 points by mitchbob 7 months ago | 63 comments

Garum Masala(nybooks.com)

155 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 112 comments

Unwanted Thoughts: a new history of the Index of Prohibited Books(nybooks.com)

45 points by drdee 3 years ago | 2 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

Writing as a thinking tool(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

441 points by jruohonen 5 days ago | 108 comments

Murat Demirbas's blog post arguing writing is a thinking tool, with five rules for writing and thoughts on writing in the age of LLMs.

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters(resobscura.substack.com)

160 points by benbreen 1 month ago | 38 comments

A Res Obscura Substack post by historian Benjamin Breen arguing AI labs should fund historical research, with examples of using frontier LLMs to trace alchemy and decode 17th-century letters.