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more real than real life
fake news in fiction ✦ and how novels let us transcend our epistemological limitations
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the allure of the literary ranked list
23 brief reviews of books on the NYT's "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" list
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June 2024

everything i read in june 2024
13 books about art, psychology, gender, and gradient descent ✦ and 3 films about women's labor, family, and love
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take the paranoid reading pill
how to write about conspiracy theories ✦ and the process of revising an essay
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falling in love with the short story form
5 incredible short stories about missing continents, mind uploading, motherhood, and love
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May 2024

everything i read in may 2024
welcome to the Virginia Woolf–Anne Carson–Merve Emre fan club
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research as leisure activity
my favorite form of entertainment is downloading PDFs ✦ plus favorite Fluxus artists and early programs
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April 2024

everything i read in april 2024
13 books, serious and frivolous essays, and British pub gossip
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how to write about art
on Rachel Jones's toothy landscapes ✦ and lessons from Peter Schjeldahl and David Salle
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how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
every writer begins as a poseur ✦ on Kafka, Proust, philosophy, and trying very hard
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March 2024

everything i read in march 2024
three books, essays old and new, and two perfect poems ✦
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how to change your life, part 1: l.a. paul's transformative experience
on philosophy as self-help ✦ and the epistemology of queer identity
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