The links have really gotten away from me. This summer, I was prioritizing finishing up a chapter for Too Big to Read, and this fall the semester just hammered me; I basically haven’t had a single free moment. So, better late than never, huh? Over six months of links. Enjoy.
Nuclear and Environmental
Apocalyptica, a new journal.
Jeff VanderMeer, “Florida’s Environmental Failures Are a Warning for the Rest of the US.”
Lydia Millet, “Biden’s Green Energy Money Is Sugar on a Poison Pill.”
Tina Cordova, “What Oppenheimer Doesn’t Tell You about the Trinity Test.”
Brad Plumer and Elena Shao, “Heat Records Are Broken Around the Globe as Earth Warms, Fast.”
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Heat Is Not a Metaphor.”
David Gelles, “Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.’”
Tom Engelhardt, “Humanity Has Created Too Many Ways of Destroying Itself.”
Kim Tingley, “‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere. What Are They Doing to Us?”
Azby Brown, “Just Like That, Tons of Radioactive Waste Is Heading for the Ocean.”
Raymond Zhong, “Something Was Messing With Earth’s Axis. The Answer Has to Do With Us.”
Damian Carrington, “Canadian Lake Chosen to Represent Start of Anthropocene.”
Ralph Vartabedian, “A Poisonous Cold War Legacy That Defies a Solution.”
The Washington Post, “Where Dangerous Heat Is Surging.”
Michael Levenson, “Heat Wave and Blackout Would Send Half of Phoenix to ER, Study Says.”
Jessica Hurley, “The Irradiated Body as Postcolonial Lost Edge.”
Hoyt Long and Aarthi Vadde, “We Want Our Catastrophe TV.”
Emma Pattee, “On the False Promise of Climate Fiction.”
Tom Nichols, “When Hollywood Put World War III on Television.”
Eliyahu Keller, “Paolo Soleri’s Nuclear Revelation and the Scale of Apocalypse.”
Bren Ram, “Lucy’s Apocalypse: Placing the End of the World in Narrative.”
Oriana Confente, Sofia Di Gironimo, Thai Hwang-Judiesch, Désirée Nore, and Hannah Silver, “Notes from a Reading Group at the End of the World: End of the World Research.”
Tim Wogan, “The Plastics Industry Says It Has a Clever Solution to the Plastics Crisis.”
Erika Benke, “The Place Where No Humans Will Tread for One Hundred Thousand Years.”
Yvon Chouinard, “The High Stakes of Low Quality.”
David Gelles, Brad Plumer, Jim Tankersley, and Jack Ewing, “The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster than You Think.”
David Gelles and Mike Baker, “Judge Rules in Favor of Montana Youths in a Landmark Climate Case.”
Cara Buckley, “To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats” and “In Shipping, a Push to Slash Emissions by Harnessing the Wind.”
Alexander Rabin and Lisa Patel, “Our Children’s Lungs Are Uniquely Vulnerable to All This Wildfire Smoke.”
Noreen Malone, “Will Children Save Us at the End of the World?”
Carl Zimmer, “Mammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predict.”
Kenneth Chang, “A Laser Fusion Breakthrough Gets a Bigger Burst of Energy.”
And Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, and William K. Rashbaum, “Trump, Under Oath, Says He Averted ‘Nuclear Holocaust.’”
Gaza
Lauren Leatherby, “Gaza Civilians, Under Israeli Barrage, Are Being Killed at Historic Pace.”
Ismail Ibrahim, “A Hole in the Limits of the World.”
Dave Zirin, “The War on Gaza Must Not Be Waged in Our Name.”
Gabriel Winant, “On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer.”
David Klion, “Have We Learned Nothing?”
Palestinian Youth Movement, “The First Week: Dispatch from the Palestinian Youth Movement.”
Zeynep Tufekci, “Past Lies about War in the Middle East Are Getting in the Way of the Truth Today.”
Samuel McIlhagga, “Europe Squandered Its Chance to Secure Peace by Capitulating to Capitalism.”
Dan Sheehan, “Read Anne Boyer’s Extraordinary New York Times Resignation Letter.”
Judith Butler, “The Compass of Mourning.”
Isaac Chotiner, “Where the Palestinian Political Project Goes from Here.”
Jennifer Ruth, “The Uses and Abuses of the Kalven Report.”
Isabel Kershner, “Netanyahu Suspends Israeli Minister Who Said Dropping a Nuclear Bomb on Gaza Was an Option.”
Elizabeth Spiers, “I Don’t Have to Post About My Outrage. Neither Do You.”
And Sara Abou Rashed, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Jessica Abughattas, Deema K. Shehabi, and Elizabeth Metzger, “Who Shall Remember How? Palestinian Poets Respond.”
Politics and Economics
David E. Sanger, “Henry Kissinger Is Dead at One Hundred; Shaped the Nation’s Cold War History.”
Christy Thornton, “From the War Room to Wall Street.”
Jael Goldfine, “Workers of the Music World Are Uniting—and Winning.”
Kate Fortmueller, “The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds.”
Pamela Paul, “What It Means to Call Prostitution ‘Sex Work.’”
Paul Krugman, “Will the US Economy Pull Off a ‘Soft Landing’?” and “What’s In a Name? Musk/Twitter Edition.”
Anthony Nadler and Doron Taussig, “The Deep Story beneath the Big Lie.”
Peter Baker, “Russia’s Latest Sanctions on US Officials Turn to Trump Enemies.”
Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman, “Indictment Presents Evidence Trump’s Actions Were More Blatant Than Known.”
Susan B. Glasser, “Finally, the Trump Case We’ve Been Waiting For.”
Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage, and Maggie Haberman, “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025.”
Martin Pengelly, “Donald Trump Vows to Lock Up Political Enemies If He Returns to the White House.”
Ed Kilgore, “The Latest Trump Indictment Makes 2024 All about 2020.”
Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess, “Judge Rules Trump Committed Fraud, Stripping Control of Key Properties.”
Adam Liptak and Alan Feuer, “Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Decide if Trump Is Immune from Prosecution.”
Maggie Astor, “Trump Is Disqualified from 2024 Ballot, Colorado Court Says in Explosive Ruling.”
Adam Liptak, “Colorado Ruling Knocks Trump Off Ballot: What It Means, What Happens Next.”
Thomas B. Edsall, “How Much Can Trump 2.0 Get Away With?”
Jean M. Twenge, “The Myth of the Broke Millennial.”
Eliza Shapiro, “Behind the Gates of a Private World for Only the Wealthiest New Yorkers.”
And Paul Krugman, “Everything’s Coming Up Soft Landing.”
AI
Kevin Roose, “AI Belongs to the Capitalists Now.”
Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, and Krystal Hu, “OpenAI Researchers Warned Board of AI Breakthrough ahead of CEO Ouster, Sources Say.”
Ian Bogost, “The First Year of AI College Ends in Ruin.”
Michael W. Clune, “AI Means Professors Need to Raise Their Grading Standards.”
Matthew Kirschenbaum, ed., “Again Theory: A Forum on Language, Meaning, and Intent in the Time of Stochastic Parrots” and a list of the contributors and essays here.
Evgeny Morozov, “The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence.”
W. J. T. Mitchell, “From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence.”
J. D. Connor, “Things Will Get Shittier: AI and the Dial of Business Basiness.”
Corey Robin, “The End of the Take-Home Essay?”
John Cayley, “Modelit: eliterature à la (language) mode(l).”
Søren Bro Pold, “Textpocalpyse Now?”
Andrew Dean, “Machine Voice: Programmer Fiction.”
Leif Weatherby, “AI Won’t Just Replace TV and Movie Writers–It Will Make Pop Culture a Nightmare.”
Alex Reisner, “These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech.”
Kevin Roose, “AI Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn.”
The Authors Guild, “Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders.”
Alex Reisner, “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI.”
Mark Sullivan, “What Is the Real Point of All These Letters Warning about AI?”
Maya Bodnick, “GPT-4 Can Already Pass Freshman Year at Harvard.”
Beth McMurtrie and Beckie Supiano, “ChatGPT Has Changed Teaching. Our Readers Tell Us How.”
MLA-CCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI, “Working Paper: Overview of the Issues, Statement of Principles, and Recommendations.”
Tim Laquintano, Carly Schnitzler, and Annette Vee, “TextGenEd: An Introduction to Teaching with Text Generation Technologies.”
Joseph M. Keegin, “ChatGPT Is a Plagiarism Machine.”
Ian Wilhelm, “‘Nobody Wins in an Academic Integrity Arms Race.'”
Jane Rozenweig, “AI-Assisted Writing Is Close to Becoming as Standard as Spell Check. Here’s the Catch.”
Caroline Mimbs Nyce, “The AI Mona Lisa Explains Everything.”
Beth McMurtrie, “Teaching: Want Your Students to Be Skeptical of ChatGPT? Try This.”
Naomi S. Baron, “AI in the Classroom Is a Problem. Professors Are the Solution.”
Taylor Swaak, “‘We’re All Using It’: Publishing Decisions Are Increasingly Aided by AI. That’s Not Always Obvious.”
Michael D. Shear, Cecilia Kang, and David E. Sanger, “Pressured by Biden, AI Companies Agree to Guardrails on New Tools.”
Adam Satariano, “EU Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules.”
Kelli María Korducki, “So Much for ‘Learn to Code.'”
And ChatGPT as Prompted by Mark C. Marino, Hallucinate This! An Authoritized Autobotography of ChatGPT.
Science and Health
Kate LaRue, “The James Webb Telescope Is a Giant Leap in the History of Stargazing.”
Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, “The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel.”
Matt Richtel, Catherine Pearson, and Michael Levenson, “Surgeon General Warns That Social Media May Harm Children and Adolescents.”
William J. Broad, “The Terror of Threes in the Heavens and on Earth.”
Natalie Wolchover, “How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code.”
Jeremy White, Pam Belluck, Noah Bassetti-Blum, Eleanor Lutz, and Hang Do Thi Duc, “An Inside Look at COVID’s Lasting Damage to the Lungs.”
Carl Zimmer, “Omicron, Now Two Years Old, Is Not Done with Us Yet” and “Morning Person? You Might Have Neanderthal Genes to Thank.”
Tarun Sai Lomte, “Coffee and COVID: Study Finds Coffee Inhibits SARS-CoV-2, Offers New Dietary Defense Strategy.”
Katrina Miller, “A ‘Soda Ocean’ on a Moon of Saturn Has All the Ingredients for Life.”
Heather Dixon, “US Urged to Reveal UFO Evidence after Claim That It Has Intact Alien Vehicles.”
Marik Von Rennenkampff, “Claims That UFO Information Was Inappropriately Withheld from Congress Deemed ‘Credible,’ ‘Urgent.'”
Helene Cooper, “Lawmakers and Former Officials Press for Answers on UFOs.”
Katrina Miller, “Scientist’s Deep Dive for Alien Life Leaves His Peers Dubious.”
Bethany Brookshire, “Silence Is a ‘Sound’ You Hear, Study Suggests.”
History
Nick Witham, “Howard Zinn and the Politics of Popular History.”
Hyperarchival
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, “The World’s Digital Memory Is at Risk.”
Nell Card, “Tales of the Unexpected: Inside the Thriving World of Independent Bookshops.”
Kashmir Hill, “The Technology Facebook and Google Didn’t Dare Release.”
Catharine Gallagher, “The Birth of the Chapter.”
Jennifer Schuessler, “Smithsonian Acquires Major Collection about Enslaved Poet.”
Margret Grebowicz, “Terry Bisson’s History of the Future.”
Zachary Schermele, “Is #AcademicTwitter Over?”
Andres Guadamuz, “It’s Time to Leave Twitter.”
Josh Lambert, “The Invisible Forces behind the Books We Read.”
Lee Konstantinou, “The Sociology of Literature Comes of Age.”
Dan Sinykin, “All Those Wizards, Ogres, and Barely-Clad Elf Queens in the Bookstore? You Have Lester del Rey to Thank” and “What Was Literary Fiction?”
Richard Fisher, “Until 3183 AD, This Public Sculpture Is a Work in Progress.”
Kyle Melnick, “Scrolls Were Illegible for 2,000 Years. A College Student Read with AI.”
George Gene Gustines, “But Who Gets the Comic Books?”
Gemma Conroy, “Surge in Number of ‘Extremely Productive’ Authors Concerns Scientists.”
Ezra Klein, “Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind.”
Joshua Chaplinsky, “LitReactor: The End of an Era.”
Emily Baker-White, “Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, the Leader of the Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement?”
Kevin Roose, “This AI Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go.”
D. Graham Burnett, Alyssa Loh, and Peter Schmidt, “Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.”
Alisha Haridasani Gupta, “Checking Email? You’re Probably Not Breathing.”
Livia Albeck-Ripka, “A Book Club Took Twenty-Eight Years to Read Finnegans Wake. Now, It’s Starting Over.”
Lauren Herstik, “Where the Ferris Wheel Is by Basquiat and the Carousel by Keith Haring.”
And John Rauschenberg, “Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell, Reimagined for Linguistic Transgressions.”
Criticism and Theory
Democracy Now!, “Italian Marxist Philosopher Antonio Negri Dies at Ninety.”
Antonio Negri, “Starting again from Marx.”
Robert T. Tally Jr., “Reason and Revolution Redux: Antonio Negri’s Political Descartes.”
“Infrastructuralism,” special issue, symplokē 31, nos. 1-2 (2023).
Critical Inquiry, “Fiftieth Anniversary.”
Fredric Jameson, “Reunified German Images.”
McKenzie Wark, “Resisting Simulations of the Self.”
Wendy Brown, “Max Weber’s Ethical Pedagogy for a Nihilistic Age.”
Grace Lavery, “Gender Criticism versus Gender Abolition: On Three Recent Books about Gender.”
Matt Seybold, “The A[nna] K[ornbluh] Collection.”
Ed Simon, “Are We Still Postmodern?: On Stuart Jeffries’s Everything, All the Time, Everywhere.”
Sarah Wasserman, ed., “Hard/Soft/Lost: The Edges of Contemporary Culture,” cluster at ASAP/Journal.
Ray Brassier, “Politics of the Rift: On Théorie Communiste.”
Christopher Newfield, “Criticism after Crisis: Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Literary Criticism: Reflections from a Damaged Field.
Mitchell Cohen, “Georg Lukács’s Two Natures: The Centenary of History and Class Consciousness.”
“Counter-Works,” The Digital Review, no. 3.
Anna Silman, “How Merve Emre Became the Hottest–and Most Reviled–Name in Literary Criticism.”
New Books Networks, “Robert T. Tally Jr.: For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism.”
Michelle Chihara, “Calm Can Coexist with Fury: A Conversation with Naomi Klein.”
Iana Robitaille, “Neoliberal Keywords: Creative, Passionate, Confident.”
Tom Allen, “An Image of Itself: On David Grundy’s Present Continuous.”
Jorge Cotte, Aaron Bady, Lili Loofbourow, Jane Hu, “Phillip Maciak’s Avidly Reads Screen Time: A Symposium.”
Colin FLynn, “School Spirit: Debts and Gifts from Wallace and Lethem.”
Samuel McIlhagga, “Gen Z Has Finally Found Its Karl Marx.”
Richard Wolin, “To Sanitize the Master’s Corpus: On the Heidegger Hoax.”
Ben Wurgaft, “Martin Jay and the Fate of Radical Ideas.”
Alhelí Harvey, “Please Hold while I Disconnect You.”
Scott Rettberg and Joseph Tabbi, “Episode 2: Joseph Tabbi on the Electronic Book Review, Research Infrastructure, and Electronic Literature.”
Len Gutkin, “Why Is Stanley Fish Teaching at Florida’s New College?”
boundary 2, “R. A. Judy Receives Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.”
And e-flux Notes.
Succession
James Poniewozik, “Rupert Murdoch Turned Passion and Grievance into Money and Power.”
Michell Goldberg, “The Ludicrous Agony of Rupert Murdoch.”
Phillip Maciak, “The End of Succession Is the End of an Era in TV.”
David R. Shumway, “What Genre Is Succession?”
Conner Reed, “Succession Is Television’s Most Devastating Critique of the Ultrarich.”
Frank Rich, “Succession Is King Lear for Our Era of Ravenous Corporate Media.”
Elizabeth Spiers, “How Succession Busts One of America’s Most Cherished Myths.”
Ben Lindbergh, “Shiv’s Decision Defines Succession and Fulfills the Roy Siblings’ Destiny.”
Guy Trebay, “‘Stealth Wealth’ and Bare Feet: How Power Dresses on Succession.”
Kurt Andersen, “Succession Nailed the Unreal Way We Live Now.”
Bill Wyman, “Succession Tricked a Sliver of America into Thinking That It’s a Good Show.”
Ali Royals, “Hereditary Venom: On Nicholas Britell’s ‘Succession: Season 4′ Soundtrack.”
Michael Szalay, “Succession and Prestige TV’s Fascism Problem.”
Literature and Culture
Dwight Garner, “Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89.”
A. O. Scott, “Good Night, Sweet Prince,” on Martin Amis (1949–2023) and “Cormac McCarthy, Riding Into a Bloodred Sunset.”
Dan Sinykin, “Cormac McCarthy Had a Remarkable Literary Career. It Could Never Happen Now.”
Daniel Lewis, “Milan Kundera, Literary Star Who Skewered Communist Rule, Dies at 94.”
Dwight Garner, “In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive.”
Clay Risen, “Louise Glück, 80, Nobel-Winning Poet Who Explored Trauma and Loss, Dies.”
Dan Chiasson, “How Louise Glück, Nobel Laureate, Became Our Poet.”
Elisa Gonzalez, “Against Remembrance: On Louise Glück.”
Richie Hofmann, Richard Deming, and Langdon Hammer, “Remembering Louise Glück, 1943–2023.”
Alex Marshall and Alexandra Alter, “Jon Fosse, Norwegian Author, Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.”
Alex Marshall, “Jon Fosse Wants to Say the Unsayable.”
Morrissey, “You Know I Couldn’t Last.”
Patricia Lockwood, “Where Be Your Jibes Now?”
Walter Mosley, “Colson Whitehead Returns to Harlem, and His Hero Returns to Crime.”
Racheal Fest, “Love Is Blind beyond the Edit.”
Rani Neutill, “Prohibition and Hope: The Politics of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Writings.”
Julian Lucas, “How Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City.”
Jason Namey, “Every Detective Film Is a Comedy: On The Big Lebowski at Twenty-Five.”
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, “Major Mysteries: On Leon Forrest’s Divine Days.”
Valerie Duff-Strautmann, “We Have Other Plans,” review of [To] The Last [Be] Human, by Jorie Graham, and Milkweed Smithereens, by Bernadette Mayer.
Manohla Dargis, “Oppenheimer Review: A Man for Our Time” and “Barbie Review: Out of the Box and On the Road.”
Alex Wellerstein, “Fact, Fiction, and The Father of the Bomb: On Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.”
Jorge Cotte, “The Many Enigmas of Oppenheimer.”
Lori Marso, “Feeling Like a Barbie: On Greta Gerwig and Chantal Akerman.”
James B. Stewart, “Mattel’s Windfall from Barbie.”
Alexandra Jacobs, “For The Late Americans, Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui,” review of The Late Americans, by Brandon Taylor.
A. K. Blakemore, “The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova Review–Stunning Short Stories.”
J. Arthur Boyle, “The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction.”
Manohla Dargis, “Asteroid City Review: Our Town and Country.”
Stuart Moulthrop, “Erroneous Assumptions: Steve Tomasula’s Ascension.”
John Carreyrou, “The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You’ll Never See.”
Maureen Ryan, “Lost Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture.”
James Robins, “Kitsch and Woo-Woo: Cinematic Visions of the Ultrarich.”
Haley Weiss, “The Frightening Science Behind the Cannibalism on Yellowjackets.”
James Poniewozik, “Review: The Bear Changes Course(s).”
Alexandra J. Gold, “Every Second Counts: On FX’s The Bear.”
Stuart Heritage, “The Great Cancellation: Why Megabucks TV Shows Are Vanishing without a Trace.”
Lawrence Venuti, “Crossing The Tartar Steppe: A New Buzzati.”
Kate Dwyer, “Bookforum Is Returning, Months after Its Closure Was Mourned in the Literary World.”
Cheyenne Roundtree, “The Idol: How HBO’s Next Euphoria Became Twisted ‘Torture Porn.’”
James Poniewozik, Wesley Morris, and Lindsay Zoladz, “The Idol Is Ending Sunday. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.”
J. D. Connor, “Badwatching: Scenes from a Misspent Life.”
Peter Derk, “MyHouse.wad: Doom, House of Leaves, and the Pinnacle of Ergodic Lit.”
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, “The Quarterback at Twilight: On Matthew Barney’s Secondary.”
Jonathan Russell Clark, “Chuck Palahniuk Is Not Who You Think He Is.”
Lauren Michele Jackson, “How the Movie Professor Got Canceled.”
Alexa Brazilian, “Why Artists Can’t Quit Cigarettes.”
Nick Groom, “Is Lord of the Rings a Work of Modernism?”
Alessandro Camon, “How to Destroy a Creative Industry (and How to Save It).”
Steven Hyden, “Twenty-Eight Thoughts on Seeing US at Las Vegas’s Sphere.”
Emily Kling, “Sexy Halloween Costume Ideas for Straight Men.”
And Elizabeth Bastos, “An Open Letter to the Pair of Gen-Z Men in the Northeast Regional Quiet Car Loudly Discussing Pitchfork‘s One Hundred Best Albums of All Time.”
Music
Andrew Sacher, “Botch Were Larger than Life at their NYC Reunion Shows.”
John McWhorter, “How Hip-Hop Became America’s Poetry.”
Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, “Taylor Swift Has Rocked My Psychiatric Practice.”
Matt Stevens, “Taylor Swift’s Viral Era.”
Chang Che, “‘Swift Quake’: Taylor Swift Fans Shake Ground during Seattle Concert.”
Anna Dorn, “Lack of Charisma Can Be Comforting.”
Wesley Morris, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Movie Review: Look What We Made Her Do.”
Richard Brody: “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Is Intimate, Colossal, and Slightly Disappointing.”
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Creative Writing
Janet Burroway, “Slouching toward Sensitivity.”
Richard Siken, “Real Estate,” “Velocity,” “Pornography,” “Metonymy,” “Sidewalk,” “Poetry,” “Dinosaur,” and “Parataxis,” and “On Perplexity: Chrysanthemum.”
Thomas Hobohm, “A Conversation with Richard Siken.”
Lauren Russell, “Exposition.”
Stacy Y. China, “How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets.”
William T. Vollmann, “Four Men: Keeping Company with Outdoor People.”
Michael W. Clune, “The Campus Job Talk from Hell.”
Elizabeth Metzger, “Scrolling through Poetry: A Conversation with @poetryisnotaluxury.”
Tessa Yang, “The Four Sharks of the Apocalypse.”
James Tadd Adcox, “Denmark: Variations.”
Robert Frede Kenter, “Acts of Resistance–A Visual Poem Sequence in Ten Panels.”
Matthew Olzmann, “Epithalamium That Refuses to Ignore the Possibility of a Zombie Apocalypse.”
Melissa Darcey Hall, “What We Wanted.”
Joel Cuthbertson, “Against the MFA Contrarians.”
Hannah Rinehart, “The End of the Gettysburg Review.”
Evan Kindley, “Why Is Gettysburg College Giving Up on the Gettysburg Review?”
Arthur C. Brooks, “The Sociopaths among Us–and How to Avoid Them.”
Roger Hecht, “Driving out of Oneonta.”
Paige Eaton, “Dream Whispers.”
Video Games
Joseph Earl Thomas, “To These Writers, Video Games Are Not Just Entertainment, but Art,” review of Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games, edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado.
Patrick House, “Again, Again, Again: On Carmen Machado and J. Robert Lennon’s Critical Hits and Frank Lantz’s The Beauty of Games.”
Brendan Keogh, The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production.
Martin Dolan, “Playing with Nature: On Tears of the Kingdom as Ecofiction.”
Holger Pötzsch, Kristine Jørgensen, eds., “Futures of Games and Game Studies,” special issue, Eludamos 14, no. 1 (2023).
Jonathan Holmes, “Twin Peaks: Into the Night Is a Fan’s Dream Game.”
Patrick McGraw, “I’m High on World of Warcraft.”
Brian X. Chen, “Final Fantasy XVI Takes on Its Star Wars Problem.”
Corey Plante, “Final Fantasy XVI: The Kotaku Review.”
Kellen Browning and Matt Stevens, “Starfield‘s One Thousand Planets May Be One Giant Leap for Game Design.”
John Yoon, “E3 Tech Expo Is Shutting Down.”
ShogunSteph, “I Want to Play a Game: There Is No Escape.”
Sports
Michael Pina, “The Action That Turned the Nuggets into a Juggernaut.”
Mark Puleo, “Nikola Jokić, Shaquille O’Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon? How Nuggets Star Compares to All-Time Great Big Men.”
Ben Blatt, “Studying the Limits of Human Perfection through Darts.”
Maggie Hicks, “Conference Realignment Is Sweeping College Sports. Here’s Why It Matters.”
Billy Witz, “NCAA Proposes Uncapping Compensation for Athletes.”
And Candace Buckner, “Travis Kelce Is Messing with Forces Too Powerful to Control.”
Parenting
Catherine Pearson, “Let Kids Get Bored. It’s Good for Them.”
Humanities and Higher Education
Jason de Stefano, “This Is a Golden Age of Academic Unionization.”
Dan Bauman, “Why is West Virginia University Making Sweeping Cuts?”
Colleen Baer, “MLA Executive Director Speaks Out against Dramatic Cuts to Humanities Programs at West Virginia University.”
The Executive Committee of the ACLA, “An Open Letter to President E. Gordon Gee.”
Rose Casey, Jessica Wilkerson, and Johanna Winant, “An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University.”
Dennis M. Hogan, “Capture the Flagship: West Virginia University Dismantles Itself.”
MountaineerENews, “Nominations Being Accepted for 2023 Most Loyal Awards.”
James Rushing Daniel, “The Ever-More-Corporate University.”
Beth Ann Fennelly, “Stop Corporatizing My Students.”
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, “The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For.”
Sarah Wasserman, “The Best Reason to Major in English.”
Elisa Tamarkin, “The Old ‘Irrelevance Canard.”
Agnes Callard, “I Teach the Humanities, and I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is.”
Michael Austin, “Liberal Arts and Higher Education: The Vital Art of Not Being a Bug.”
Rebecca L. Walkowitz, “Gutting Language Departments Would Be a Disaster.”
Robert Zaretsky, “Humanities on the Cutting-Room Floor.”
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, “We’ve Been Thinking about Work All Wrong.”
Audrey Williams June, “How Do Humanities Majors Fare in the Work Force?”
Geoff Shullenberger, “Against Moral Clarity.”
Kevin R. McClure and Barrett J. Taylor, “The Hollowing Out of Higher Education.”
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, “Dickinson State Looks to Cut Tenured Faculty in Massive Academic Restructuring.”
Charlie Tyson, “The Corporatization of Creativity.”
David J. Siegel, “It’s Time for Higher Ed to Embrace Guerrilla Tactics.”
Michael D. Shear, “Student Loans Decision Unravels One of Biden’s Signature Efforts.”
Sarah Brown, Helen Huiskes, and Zachary Schermele, “US Supreme Court Strikes Down Student-Loan Cancellation for Millions of Borrowers.”
Stacy Cowley, “Education Dept. Cancels $39 Billion in Student Debt for 800,000 Borrowers.”
Richard Lempert, “Overturning Affirmative Action Was a Power Play.”
Aatish Bhatia, Claire Cain Miller, and Josh Katz, “Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification.”
Zachary Schermele, “New Research Lays Bare Just How Inequitable Elite Colleges Are.”
Sammy Feldblum, “How Stanford Helped Capitalism Take Over the World.”
Zachary Small, “Sudden Closure of Art Institutes Leaves 1,700 Students Adrift.”
Catherine M. Roach, “My Unexpected Cure for Burnout.”
David Leonhardt and Ashley Wu, “The Top US Colleges with the Greatest Economic Diversity.”
Aaron Basko, “Can Sports Save Small Colleges?”
Kevin Dettmar, “Ask the Chair: When Is a ‘Reply All’ Email an Act of Aggression?”
Jacquelyn Elias, “Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?”
Zachary Schermele, “A College Gave This Adjunct Three Classes to Teach. Then It Forgot to Tell Him.”
Erin Gretzinger, “Unpleasant Surprises.”
Pam Kelley, “The College That Refused to Die.”
Dena S. Davis, “When Your College Is Staring Death in the Face.”
Ryan Weber, “How to Reverse Declining History Major Enrollment Numbers, Which Are All the Faculty’s Fault.”
Rebecca Colesworthy, “Should You Turn Your Dissertation into a Book?”
Amanda Lehr, “Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ.”
Travel
Jill P. Capuzzo, “Manasquan, NJ: A Beath Town Where Kids ‘Have a Little More Freedom.'”
Andrew Giambrone and David Brand, “Partial Amtrak Shutdown Prompted by Discovery of Cracked Steel Beams at Midtown Parking Garage.”
Tucson and Arizona
Craig Childs, “Adrift in Mythic Country: On Tom Zoellner’s Rim to River.”
Calli McMurray, “The University of Arizona Has a ‘Major Problem’ With Finances, Its President Says.”
Dan Bauman, “How the University of Arizona Found Itself in a ‘Financial Crisis’ of Its Own Making.”
Pittsburgh
Fred Shaw, “A Tribute to Pittsburgh’s Jeff Oaks, a Sensitive Poet Too Young to Leave.”
Bill O’Driscoll, “Werner Herzog, Steelers fan? Tracing the Filmmaker’s Pittsburgh Ties.”
Oneonta and Upstate New York
Kathleen Peartree, “Discover Twenty of the Most Picturesque Small Towns in the United States.”
Hartwick College, “Writing Center Earns 2024 Martinson Award for Innovation” and “With New Books, Writing Center Commits to Linguistic Justice.”
Gary Stoller, “Lantern Festival Illuminates the Binghamton Night.”
Megan Zahneis, “A College Will Close After Years of Labor Battles and Enrollment Declines.”
And “Moody’s Downgrades Hartwick College’s (NY) Issuer and Debt Ratings to B2; Outlook Negative.”
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