Farming Startup Unveils Self-Driving Robot That Uses AI To Zap Weeds
This is so well-worth your time: Cathy Park Hong and Chanel Miller on Making Art Out of Grief: A Conversation [Glamour]
Really interesting look at why so many celebs write children’s books.[Romper]
Soviet montage
A hundred years ago Soviet filmmakers such as Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Eisenstein demonstrated how you could create meaning purely through film editing.
Grace from slavery
John Newton was a press-ganged sailor, a slave, a slave-ship captain, an Anglican priest, an abolitionist, and the author of the hymn “Amazing Grace.”
Transylvanian school of witchcraft and wizardry
The 19th century Scottish author Emily Gerard collected local legends about a school of black magic high in the mountains of Transylvania.
On Zoom, Using Ancient Greek Theater To Process Modern Traumas
“Ancient stories, and texts that have stood the test of time, can be portals to honest and dignified grappling with present wounds and longings and callings that we aren’t able to muster in our official places now. It’s an embodiment of the good Greek word catharsis — releasing both insight and emotions that have had no place to go, and creating an energizing relief.” Krista Tippett interviews Bryan Doerries, founder and director of the project Theater of War. (audio) – On Being
Conversation with Geoff Dyer
Springsteen's politics
Should books be free?
Roth's biographer
At Harper's
Autographomania
Larry McMurtry, R.I.P.
Roth's secrets
Recoined and recalcitrant
Duelling book blurbs
Dying art of criticism
Peterson: Agent of chaos
What is Substack?
Romance of cassettte tape
Fuhgeddaboudit!
On ogres' shoulders
Alice Walker cult
What is literature for?
Problem with Hawking
Frank Ramsey
Two cheers for the LRB
Saving Beckett
Voiceism
Hidden Scream
Bedroom pop
Business of books
Love letters
Curator of culture
Puzzles in print
Ferlinghetti, bookseller
Remembering Popper
Rapture fiction
Hotspots for biodiversity
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R.I.P.
French culture wars
Edward Said, novelist
Writing about trauma
Abuse of Popper
Not lost in translation
Are audiobooks books?
Staid Žižek
Artists lost to history
Where are the lesbians?
Neoracists
Banal banality
Rembrandt and slavery
How to write an obituary
Politics of fonts
Deconstructing Munch
Scandal at Poetry
Fake Buddhist scripture
Men and erotica
The 1776 follies
Against boomers
Poetry of product review
Books about books
Göring’s art agent
Critic as amateur
Keep Beethoven weird
Adieu, tie!
Novelists and playwrights
Joyce in China
Do dogs dream?
Mary Catherine Bateson, R.I.P.
Incest scandal in France
Regarding Arendt
Ethics of eating octopus
Nazi housewives
Who killed Nordic noir?
Is the Schrödinger equation true?
History of handbags
How about Orwell's novels?
Infamy and mythology
Is Substack the future?
Dreiser v. Lewis
Poetic punctuation
Parisian booksellers
Lost geniuses
Annoying words