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Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”

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Avoiding the purity loop

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Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More

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How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

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The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

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Settling

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How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust

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Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity

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The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

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Trump's Clash of Civilizations

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“Even”

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Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding

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The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About Being at Home in Yourself

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From Daphni (aka Caribou), a 7hr DJ set . 7 hours!

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The Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair Has Taken Off Its Training Wheels

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Marcel Duchamp Was the Messenger of History

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The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the...

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Process Is the Point at IFPDA Print Fair

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Who Do Chicago’s Art Fairs Serve?

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Ultimate Online Phreak Box . “This is a free...

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A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each...

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Remembering Agosto Machado, Keeper of Queer Histories

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The Paradoxical Delights of South America’s Biggest Art Fair

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An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten...

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This Risograph Studio Celebrates 400 Artist Postcards Mailed Around the Globe

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Radiohead Covers Joy Division’s Ceremony

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Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher . My...

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A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s...

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A General Theory of Possibility: The Abstract Art of Otherwise and the Physics of Resilience

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In Kyoung Chun: Make Room

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Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank...

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Menace on the Streets

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“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls...

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Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click...

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A View From the Easel

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A Wooden Canopy by Kengo Kuma Casts Dappled Light Around a Copenhagen Museum

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The Mansion, the Heiress, the Jewel Heist, and Me: A Bel-Air Fairytale

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Diary Comics From the 1940s

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Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint &...

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Finding the Cattle Queen

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Václav Havel on How to Hold Your Failure

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The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Tree

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Guggenheim Museum Gets a New Director

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Patterns without desires

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Creating the conditions for magic

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What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light

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This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to...

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