âIn a perfect world, intellectuals would be original, logical, funny and full of common sense. That is, they would be like John Careyâ
The notebooks of Camus offer an impressive array of aphorisms: "Withdraw completely and run your own race"; "Never talk about your work"
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This is what's coming in 2026
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse mu
by Ken MacVey Donald Trump has creatively explored ways to monetize the presidency. These include launching the $TRUMP crypto business a few days before resuming office on January 20, 2025 or using Tr
by Priya Malhotra Cruelty, at least the old-fashioned kind, has a shape. It announces itself. It arrives with words you can quote later, replay, contest, reject. Even when it stings, it offers a surfa
Robert Ito in The New York Times: Park Chan-wook is one of Asiaâs most famous directors, an auteur beloved as much for his complex, often critical visions of his home country of South Korea as for sce
Sebastian Smee in The Washington Post: Kerry James Marshall is contemporary artâs great engine tinkerer. He wants to know how things work. In the 1990s, when his contemporaries were making slight, cer
No publicity, no marketing â how did a 70 year oldâs debut novel start selling 1,000 copies a day?
In the late 1500s, Europeans started their era not as a pale imitation of classical greatness but as sparking a culture of growth
Affairs, authors using AI, and parties â both good and bad. Book industry insiders dish on the literary world of 2025
CĂ©sar Morales Oyarvide in Phenomenal World: In his famous 1918 essay âThe Crisis of the Tax State,â Joseph Schumpeter captured the essence of fiscal sociology, arguing that âThe spirit of a people, it
James Wolcott in Sidecar: 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Patti Smithâs debut album Horses, with Robert Mapplethorpeâs black and white cover portrait of the artist posed with her jacket slung o
Zheng Xiaoqiong in Equator: Introduction by Kaiser Kuo I first encountered Zheng Xiaoqiongâs writing in a collection of Chinese worker poetry skillfully translated by Eleanor Goodman (2016). What stru
The curse of boundless curiosity
âOur origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,â wrote Rachel Carson. âOur world, and the worlds around and within
Moral philosophy in On the Calculation of Volume
My new favorite description of Christianityâs God is from Vince Staples (~16:05): âa floating man with a blowoutâ.
Itâs Time to Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate and Must Be Replaced. ââŠso that Americans donât have to suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule that makes a parody of the de
The Anthony Bourdain Reader (Amazon) is a collection of writings from the late author, TV host, and chef, including some unpublished pieces. The Anthony Bourdain Reader is also a showcase for new and
M. Keith Booker at the Los Angeles Review of Books: EDITOR MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI has recently made something of a specialty of compiling collections of stories inspired by the work of his favorite writers,
Renaissance Florence is often associated with pioneering humanism â but consider the plight of its lowliest residents
The last great Broadway season was 1957-1958, when the hall of famers of yore put on epic performances
Nicole Eisenmanâs art combines social realism, twisted art history, and trenchant observations about the art world
Digging the soulful jazz + drum & bass energy of Chanpan. Hard to categorize what this is â so many influences and styles. đŹ Join the discussion on kottke.org â
Louis Rosenberg at Big Think: Over the past few months, weâve seen a surge of skepticism around the phenomenon currently referred to as the âAI boom.â The shift began when OpenAI released GPT-5 this s
The great divergence is at handâand you must choose
Clean Energy Is Still Winning. These 10 Charts Prove It. In March 2025, more electricity was generated with clean energy than with fossil fuels for the first time. đŹ Jo
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Martin Scorsese remembers his friend Rob Reiner. âHe had a beautiful sense of uninhibited freedom, fully enjoying the life of the moment, and he had a great barreling laugh.â
Adam Serwer: âThe reason so many of yesterdayâs free-speech champions transitioned so easily into todayâs pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others t
Yoanna Koleva at The Hedgehog Review: Tragedies, wars, and scandals are transformed into Instagram moments. The instant horror strikesâa terror attack, a catastropheâsocial-media platforms erupt with
Since we had a robust discussion last month on whether Pluribus sucks or not, I thought Iâd ask: now that the season finale has aired, what did you think of the first season as a whole? My impression
The data is clear: congestion pricing in NYC has been a âhuge successâ. âPollution: -22%. Revenue for mass transit: $548M.â đŹ Join the discussion on kottke.org â
Infinite Ball Drop: what if the Times Square NYE ball started dropping now? (Itâs currently more than 200 miles above the surface of the Earth.) đŹ Join the discussion o
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Joachim Pissarro interviews Jeff Koons at The Brooklyn Rail: Rail:Â Iâd like to spin the thread of porcelain and ceramic as a material culture that runs throughout your works. Koons: My grandparents ha
Jeremy Denk at the NYRB: Erik Satie was the truest bad boy of musical modernism in the hypercompetitive market of Paris before World War I, crammed with aspiring bad boys. He took up pieties and profa
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