Tantrums, tears, and meltdowns. The history of chess grandmasters is replete with tragic stories of lives undone by delusion and paranoia
https://thewalrus.ca/the-stress-of-elite-chess-is-wearing-down-the-games-champions
The New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently unearthed 40,000 slides: Here’s what the art world of the 1990s looked like
https://www.vulture.com/article/jerry-saltz-new-york-art-world-1990s.html
Upward Bound, a novel by a profoundly autistic author, raises an awful but unavoidable question: Who actually wrote it?
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/04/who-really-wrote-autistic-author-woody-brown-novel/686814/
"Turning gold into gold." What's it like to translate the Bard into Bengali, and Lear’s verdict on Cordelia into Chinese?
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/if-this-be-magic-review-a-great-feast-of-languages-5af4bcda?st=8tW8xf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Dwight Garner: “The thin crust of American intellectual life, long flaking, has begun to show bald patches”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/books/review/ai-book-reviews.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eFA.YTFv.vcPBapZ8Httj&smid=url-share
Seamus Heaney took Dante, not Yeats, as his model — and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory
https://hudsonreview.com/2026/02/poet-lucky-poet-the-poems-of-seamus-heaney/
A writing experiment reveals AI's likely future: Individual productivity rises; collective intelligence decays
https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-social-edge-of-intelligence/
Great writers do not reveal to us the admirable depth of their minds: they guide us in cultivating the depth of our own
https://aeon.co/essays/the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-personal-freedom
Two of his Picasso’s lovers committed suicide, another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/the-mind-of-a-minotaur/
Your sous vide wand. Your car. Your search results. All enshittified, all on purpose, all at once. Cory Doctorow explains
https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2026/05/screen-and-shout-review-enshittification-needy-media/
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