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Unreconstructed feminist. Writer. Rocket Dreams. Last Days in Babylon. The Middlepause. Insomnia. Senior Editor @aeonmag. A Little Give out now

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This was such a fabulous essay to reel in. A young writer who I think we'll be hearing more from, on a true icon: Thomas Merton. aeon.co/essays/how-tho…

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Gorgeous lyrical essay from Dan Hancox - which dares to suggest that we might be better off letting go of houses, villages, land, claimed by coastal erosion. The urge to save everything is a losing game. aeon.co/essays/how-to-…

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Psyche magazine is relaunching in May. In future we'll be running more first-person pieces -- like this lovely number from Katie Da Cunha Lewin, on a very normalised kind of surveillance culture. psyche.co/ideas/moving-t…

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The Nazi Salute decided it for me. I'm signing off. I refuse any association with Musk. Week 1 of Trump proves Project 25 is go. It's contemptible in every way. I am sad to leave many friends here. Le Monde has left. Aeon has left. I hope publishers leave. See you on Bluesky.

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Cracking essay from Josh Cohen on Byung Chul Han, the best least-known philosopher of our time. If you feel hollowed out by digital culture, read on. aeon.co/essays/thought…

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Digital media just gives us the tools: we undo ourselves all by ourselves, we conspire in our own alienation. Josh Cohen is on top form here aeon.co/essays/thought…

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Renaissance scholars had thier own LLMs - for writing letters, practising diplomacy, and disputing! Fbulous essay from @hannahkatznelson aeon.co/essays/who-nee…

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What's wrong with formula story-telling? From genre fiction to Hollywood blockbusters.... they are fundamentally dishonest, says Eliane Glaser aeon.co/essays/why-doe…

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Psyche Magazine has a new First Person channel. Today we published Timothy Hampton — the loving tongue. psyche.co/stories-of-cha…

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Read something beautiful today: a haunting essay about how to retreat from the world while still being consciously engaged with your ethical commitments aeon.co/essays/how-tho…

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Gorgeous first person on how personal grief enabled war reporter Salman Masood to become a better chronicler of death. psyche.co/stories-of-cha…

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I'm excited to have an essay in this new collection of original writing on cinema. But even more excited ot read the other essays. richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-carbo…

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Brought to you by Aeon Magazine and Untold Narratives The true story of a 12-year child bride forcible wed to a Talib. It was a privilege to work on this. aeon.co/essays/the-sto…