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In our December Issue: James Vincent on humanoids; Christian Wiman on consciousness, mysticism, and quantum theory; a photo portfolio from Victor J. Blue; Lauren Hilgers on childcare affordability; Lola Seaton on Chris Kraus; and a story by Brontez Purnell.
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“Form is prior to matter. The first place was a voice. There is no such thing as stillness.”
Christian Wiman on consciousness, quantum theory, and God.
Christian Wiman on consciousness, quantum theory, and God.
The Tune of Things, by Christian Wiman
Is consciousness God?
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November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Form is prior to matter. The first place was a voice. There is no such thing as stillness.”
Christian Wiman on consciousness, quantum theory, and God.
Christian Wiman on consciousness, quantum theory, and God.
“With Thomas Mann, I always had the feeling that he has such a differentiated sense of culture, intellect, and feeling that he can see everything correctly without his life somehow being gripped by it. This turned me off. I recoiled from him.” —Carl Jung
Jung and the Restless, by Carl Jung
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“With Thomas Mann, I always had the feeling that he has such a differentiated sense of culture, intellect, and feeling that he can see everything correctly without his life somehow being gripped by it. This turned me off. I recoiled from him.” —Carl Jung
“Researchers found that college students are slightly less depressed than they were two years ago and that children born to mothers who were highly stressed during pregnancy teethe earlier.”
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Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine
It was reported that the U.S. president expected the Ukrainian president, who is facing domestic corruption allegations, to agree to a 28-point peace plan by Thanksgiving Day; and a Ukrainian refugee ...
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“Researchers found that college students are slightly less depressed than they were two years ago and that children born to mothers who were highly stressed during pregnancy teethe earlier.”
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“I knew that certain things fell outside the protection granted by eccentricity, so I pretended that my ambient anti-Americanism was ironic, the product of reading too much critical theory in college.”
Ismail Ibrahim in “House Arab” from Bidoun.
Ismail Ibrahim in “House Arab” from Bidoun.
Facts and Figures, by Ismail Ibrahim
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November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“I knew that certain things fell outside the protection granted by eccentricity, so I pretended that my ambient anti-Americanism was ironic, the product of reading too much critical theory in college.”
Ismail Ibrahim in “House Arab” from Bidoun.
Ismail Ibrahim in “House Arab” from Bidoun.
“In most cases, the faithful afflicted by the evil one need only a comfortable chair (better if equipped with armrests) to accompany the exorcistic celebration.”
From a handbook distributed by the International Association of Exorcists.
From a handbook distributed by the International Association of Exorcists.
Spirit Guide, by Harper’s Magazine
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November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“In most cases, the faithful afflicted by the evil one need only a comfortable chair (better if equipped with armrests) to accompany the exorcistic celebration.”
From a handbook distributed by the International Association of Exorcists.
From a handbook distributed by the International Association of Exorcists.
“My dear son, learn eloquence; not barely what you say, but the proper manner of speaking.
My son, learn music but don’t be a pedant in it.”
From the encrypted diaries of William Thomas Prestwood, whose decryptions are collected in Cipher, by Jeremy B. Jones.
My son, learn music but don’t be a pedant in it.”
From the encrypted diaries of William Thomas Prestwood, whose decryptions are collected in Cipher, by Jeremy B. Jones.
Rich Pap, Poor Pap,
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November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“My dear son, learn eloquence; not barely what you say, but the proper manner of speaking.
My son, learn music but don’t be a pedant in it.”
From the encrypted diaries of William Thomas Prestwood, whose decryptions are collected in Cipher, by Jeremy B. Jones.
My son, learn music but don’t be a pedant in it.”
From the encrypted diaries of William Thomas Prestwood, whose decryptions are collected in Cipher, by Jeremy B. Jones.
“Flat Earth is at its best when it shows us the widening gulf between those who watch horses give birth or wear Confederate-flag bikinis and those who attend gallery openings or fuck rich guys to finance their media-studies degrees.” —Dan Piepenbring
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring
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November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“Flat Earth is at its best when it shows us the widening gulf between those who watch horses give birth or wear Confederate-flag bikinis and those who attend gallery openings or fuck rich guys to finance their media-studies degrees.” —Dan Piepenbring
“Every time I attempt sobriety, or some reasonable facsimile of it, I pray that I am adding time to this spiritual stopwatch that I envision sits on my head.”
A new story from Brontez Purnell.
A new story from Brontez Purnell.
You Might Live Longer Than You Think, by Brontez Purnell
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November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“Every time I attempt sobriety, or some reasonable facsimile of it, I pray that I am adding time to this spiritual stopwatch that I envision sits on my head.”
A new story from Brontez Purnell.
A new story from Brontez Purnell.
“If piecemeal fixes fail to make childcare affordable, neither do they succeed in making it lucrative for owners and workers. Today, 43 percent of U.S. childcare workers rely on social assistance.”
Lauren Hilgers on the childcare affordability crisis.
Lauren Hilgers on the childcare affordability crisis.
Growing Pains, by Lauren Hilgers
Day care’s affordability crisis
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November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“If piecemeal fixes fail to make childcare affordable, neither do they succeed in making it lucrative for owners and workers. Today, 43 percent of U.S. childcare workers rely on social assistance.”
Lauren Hilgers on the childcare affordability crisis.
Lauren Hilgers on the childcare affordability crisis.
“My first shove is hesitant. I’ve been told that the prototype in front of me is worth around $250,000, and while breaking it would make for a good story, it would also be the end of my visit to Apptronik.”
@jjvincent.bsky.social on humanoid robots.
@jjvincent.bsky.social on humanoid robots.
Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine
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November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“My first shove is hesitant. I’ve been told that the prototype in front of me is worth around $250,000, and while breaking it would make for a good story, it would also be the end of my visit to Apptronik.”
@jjvincent.bsky.social on humanoid robots.
@jjvincent.bsky.social on humanoid robots.
“Virginia had a great interest and curiosity in other people, in all sorts of people who were not intimate friends. She would regard them with a sort of detached curiosity, and endeavor to bring them out.” —T. S. Eliot
Portraits of a Lady,
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November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Virginia had a great interest and curiosity in other people, in all sorts of people who were not intimate friends. She would regard them with a sort of detached curiosity, and endeavor to bring them out.” —T. S. Eliot
“A personal meeting is not necessary for the first exorcism interview. It may be sufficient to read a report transmitted by email.”
From a handbook distributed by the International Association of Exorcists.
From a handbook distributed by the International Association of Exorcists.
Spirit Guide, by Harper’s Magazine
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November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“A personal meeting is not necessary for the first exorcism interview. It may be sufficient to read a report transmitted by email.”
From a handbook distributed by the International Association of Exorcists.
From a handbook distributed by the International Association of Exorcists.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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This week's Top 5:
* Metal medicine, @highcountrynews.org
* Hyped humanoids, @harpers.bsky.social
* Carnival crossroads, @bittersouth.bsky.social
* Divine defiance, @placesjournal.bsky.social
* Optimization obsession, @aeon.co
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* Metal medicine, @highcountrynews.org
* Hyped humanoids, @harpers.bsky.social
* Carnival crossroads, @bittersouth.bsky.social
* Divine defiance, @placesjournal.bsky.social
* Optimization obsession, @aeon.co
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
In this edition: metal medicine, hyped humanoids, carnival crossroads, divine defiance, and optimization obsession.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This week's Top 5:
* Metal medicine, @highcountrynews.org
* Hyped humanoids, @harpers.bsky.social
* Carnival crossroads, @bittersouth.bsky.social
* Divine defiance, @placesjournal.bsky.social
* Optimization obsession, @aeon.co
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* Metal medicine, @highcountrynews.org
* Hyped humanoids, @harpers.bsky.social
* Carnival crossroads, @bittersouth.bsky.social
* Divine defiance, @placesjournal.bsky.social
* Optimization obsession, @aeon.co
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“I want to believe that there is always a trail, however faint, leading readers back to a book that, like a hiker lost in the wilderness, is on the brink of perishing.”
Geoff Dyer introduces the new edition of The Lives of Saints from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
Geoff Dyer introduces the new edition of The Lives of Saints from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
Holy Unimportant, by Geoff Dyer
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November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“I want to believe that there is always a trail, however faint, leading readers back to a book that, like a hiker lost in the wilderness, is on the brink of perishing.”
Geoff Dyer introduces the new edition of The Lives of Saints from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
Geoff Dyer introduces the new edition of The Lives of Saints from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
“As much as those who exploited Holocaust memory and human-rights discourse for potential gain, the anti-totalitarians are culpable for the near-total breakdown of political and moral norms today.” —Pankaj Mishra
Liberal Totalitarianism, by Pankaj Mishra
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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“As much as those who exploited Holocaust memory and human-rights discourse for potential gain, the anti-totalitarians are culpable for the near-total breakdown of political and moral norms today.” —Pankaj Mishra
“Flat Earth is at its best when it shows us the widening gulf between those who watch horses give birth or wear Confederate-flag bikinis and those who attend gallery openings or fuck rich guys to finance their media-studies degrees.” —Dan Piepenbring
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“Flat Earth is at its best when it shows us the widening gulf between those who watch horses give birth or wear Confederate-flag bikinis and those who attend gallery openings or fuck rich guys to finance their media-studies degrees.” —Dan Piepenbring
“Lotringer once described Semiotext(e)’s minimalist editions of Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, and Co. as ‘theory brut,’ and Kraus’s aesthetic could also be described as brut: raw, but also unprocessed, rough around the edges.”
Lola Seaton on Chris Kraus.
Lola Seaton on Chris Kraus.
Raw Material, by Lola Seaton
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November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“Lotringer once described Semiotext(e)’s minimalist editions of Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, and Co. as ‘theory brut,’ and Kraus’s aesthetic could also be described as brut: raw, but also unprocessed, rough around the edges.”
Lola Seaton on Chris Kraus.
Lola Seaton on Chris Kraus.
“I’ve heard a well-known poet say he didn’t believe in the soul, which seems akin to an astrobiologist saying she doesn’t believe in space. (Howe: ‘Why write if it is not to align yourself with time and space?’)” —Christian Wiman
The Tune of Things, by Christian Wiman
Is consciousness God?
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November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“I’ve heard a well-known poet say he didn’t believe in the soul, which seems akin to an astrobiologist saying she doesn’t believe in space. (Howe: ‘Why write if it is not to align yourself with time and space?’)” —Christian Wiman
“Even in the Seventies and Eighties, childcare was hard to come by, and workers were poorly compensated. The market never really worked.”
Lauren Hilgers on the childcare affordability crisis.
Lauren Hilgers on the childcare affordability crisis.
Growing Pains, by Lauren Hilgers
Day care’s affordability crisis
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November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Even in the Seventies and Eighties, childcare was hard to come by, and workers were poorly compensated. The market never really worked.”
Lauren Hilgers on the childcare affordability crisis.
Lauren Hilgers on the childcare affordability crisis.
“I think to myself: This is the real draw of the humanoid. It is mystical. It stokes the imagination, just like in earlier ages, for if we can replicate ourselves without defects, what can’t we achieve?” —@jjvincent
Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine
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November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“I think to myself: This is the real draw of the humanoid. It is mystical. It stokes the imagination, just like in earlier ages, for if we can replicate ourselves without defects, what can’t we achieve?” —@jjvincent
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"Humankind will always make ghosts faster than we can make peace with them." Joshua Comaroff's SPECTROPOLIS reviewed in @harpers.bsky.social
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New Books, by Dan Piepenbring
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November 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Humankind will always make ghosts faster than we can make peace with them." Joshua Comaroff's SPECTROPOLIS reviewed in @harpers.bsky.social
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i wrote about humanoid robots - both the hype and the very real progress being made in this sector - for @harpers.bsky.social. read all about it here: harpers.org/archive/2025...
Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine
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November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i wrote about humanoid robots - both the hype and the very real progress being made in this sector - for @harpers.bsky.social. read all about it here: harpers.org/archive/2025...
In our December Issue: James Vincent on humanoids; Christian Wiman on consciousness, mysticism, and quantum theory; a photo portfolio from Victor J. Blue; Lauren Hilgers on childcare affordability; Lola Seaton on Chris Kraus; and a story by Brontez Purnell.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In our December Issue: James Vincent on humanoids; Christian Wiman on consciousness, mysticism, and quantum theory; a photo portfolio from Victor J. Blue; Lauren Hilgers on childcare affordability; Lola Seaton on Chris Kraus; and a story by Brontez Purnell.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
“But during the Progressive Era, child-development experts began to see imaginative play as essential to healthy development, and in time the stories parents read at night tended to offer imaginative engagement rather than strict moral instruction.”—Christopher Carroll
Moon Magic, by Christopher Carroll
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November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“But during the Progressive Era, child-development experts began to see imaginative play as essential to healthy development, and in time the stories parents read at night tended to offer imaginative engagement rather than strict moral instruction.”—Christopher Carroll