Megan McCluskey in Time Magazine: Opening with a title card that claims its story is “inspired by true events,” The Deliverance chronicles the plight of the Pittsburgh-based Jackson family as they contend with a demonic possession that threatens to destroy them from the inside ou … | Continue reading
Jan Hoffman in The New York Times: The message emblazoned on a walkway window at the airport in Burlington, Vt., is a startling departure from the usual tourism posters and welcome banners: “Addiction is not a choice. It’s a disease that can happen to anyone.” The statement is pa … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. One Art The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly sp … | Continue reading
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Jared Marcel Pollen at Commonweal: I’m accustomed to saying that In Parenthesis by David Jones is the greatest work of modernist poetry you’ve never read. It exists in the same class as The Waste Land and The Cantos, and is arguably second only to the former. Eliot himself consid … | Continue reading
Abigail Tulenko at Aeon Magazine: In recent years, ‘canon-expansion’ has been a hot-button topic, as philosophers increasingly find the exclusivity of the field antithetical to its universal aspirations. As Jay Garfield remarks, it is as irrational ‘to ignore everything not written … | Continue reading
Darryl Pinckney in The Paris Review: Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on Antigua in 1949. When she was sixteen, her family interrupted her education, sending her to work as a nanny in New York. In time, she put herself on another path. She went from the New Schoo … | Continue reading
Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times: The United States Constitution is in trouble. After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he called for the “termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” Outraged critics denounced him for threate … | Continue reading
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Jess McAllen in The Baffler: Earlier this year, the founder of Think Coffee sent out an email to his more than one hundred employees with the subject line “Opening a Dialog Between Us.” Workers at the ethically minded coffee chain had been organizing a union drive across its elev … | Continue reading
Misha Angrist in Undark Magazine: “It sounds as if the donor knows who he is,” wrote Francis Collins, former director of the then-called National Center for Human Genome Research, in a 1996 email. “That’s not the way it should have been done.” This quote appears in Undark and STA … | Continue reading
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Tom Jenks in The Guardian: Baldwin was 33 in 1957, when he published his short story Sonny’s Blues, and it might be said that the whole of his lifetime went into the story. Readers today coming for the first time to this tale of Harlem life and heroin addiction might view it in c … | Continue reading
Morten Jensen in Commonweal Magazine: Like Saul Bellow’s Von Humboldt Fleisher, Hitchens was a “champion detractor,” a terrific hater, and always more fun to read when he was denouncing than when he was praising. Rare is the enemy or ideological foe who gets mentioned in these pa … | Continue reading
Alice Gibbs in Newsweek: From causing a stir with unexpected office wear to dominating social media, members of Generation Z aren’t shy about making their opinions known. As of 2023, those born between 1997 and 2012 make up the largest generation in the world, but how easy are th … | Continue reading
Liron Mor over at the Critical Inquiry blog: This is the time of inqisām. A time of severance, of breaking apart, of the utter destruction of Gaza, the dissolution of its inhabitants, its communities, and its infrastructures, of lives and everything that sustains them, of the ver … | Continue reading
Stephen Holmes in The Ideas Letter: Today’s disheartening resurgence of authoritarianism, xenophobia, race-baiting, brazen sexism and religious zealotry, not to mention homicidal rampages in the name of ethnic identity, makes rallying to the defense of a beleaguered liberalism in … | Continue reading
Kristen French in Nautilus: Throw on the Power Lights! Rev her up to 8,500! We’re going through!” shouts the commander to his crew, as he navigates through the worst storm in his 20 years of flying. A harrowing scene unfolds but then Walter Mitty is brought back to reality by the … | Continue reading
Daniel Waldenström in Aeon: Recent decades have seen private wealth multiply around the Western world, making us richer than ever before. A hasty glance at the soaring number of billionaires – some doubling as international celebrities – prompts the question: are we also living i … | Continue reading
Alexandra Jacobs at the NYT: Many writers’ graves are tourist attractions. Not Christopher Isherwood’s. Indeed, he doesn’t have one. Best remembered for his “Berlin Stories,” which became “I Am a Camera” which became “Cabaret” — and latterly for “A Single Man,” which the designer … | Continue reading
Nick Duerden at The Guardian: In 2004, the British journalist Chris Heath spent more than a year shadowing Robbie Williams’s every movement for his book on the singer, Feel. If this was above and beyond the usual requirements of a biographer, you could see why he thought it might … | Continue reading
JD Biersdorfer in The New York Times: Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment challenges you to identify classic novels from the descriptions in their original — and, well, not wholly positive — revi … | Continue reading
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On Sight I am so thankful I have seen The Desert And the creatures in The Desert And the desert Itself. The Desert has its own moon Which I have seen With my own eye There is no flag on it. Trees of the desert have arms All of which are always up That is… | Continue reading
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by David J. Lobina For someone who sees himself as a person of the Left, at least in the sense in which the political right and left were conceptualised by Norberto Bobbio ages ago – that is to say, as moral and political stances towards equality (and inequality) – and more concr … | Continue reading
by Mary Hrovat Mission to Earth: Landsat Views the World, Nicholas M. Short, Paul D. Lowman, Jr., Stanley C. Freden, William A. Finch, Jr. (published 1976) I found this book in a library at Indiana University when I was a student in the mid-1980s. I spent hours fascinated by the … | Continue reading
Jake Werner over at the Quincy Institute: In the three decades leading to the global financial crisis of 2008, neoliberal globalization stitched the world together through a common set of market-dominated institutions and ideologies. Even as it built up dangerous social inequalit … | Continue reading
Séamus Malekafzali in The Baffler: In the nine months since the war against Gaza began—nine months of terror, destruction, and displacement with no end in sight—American officials have publicly sought, in tandem with ensuring no Israeli leader is held responsible for their wanton … | Continue reading
Artur Banaszewski and Jacob Saliba over at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog: In 1987, just a few years before the end of the Cold War, Judith Shklar invited the eminent Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski to deliver a lecture at Harvard University. “Do not feel that you … | Continue reading
JW Mason in Phenomenal World: The relationship between money world and the concrete social and material world is a long-standing, though not always explicit, question in the history of economic thought. Do the money payments and prices we see all around us have their own independ … | Continue reading
Professor Jonardon Ganeri giving the 2004 John Locke Lectures at Oxford University: https://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/locke/TT24_lec1.mp3 Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
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Lillian Fishman at The Point: A problem most of us have, perhaps especially women, is that when we are in the mood to have sex reinvent our lives—when we feel dirty, restless, eager to be used and witnessed—we lay around wishing for someone intuitive and creative to come along an … | Continue reading
Sam Kestenbaum at Harper’s Magazine: It is a dark and swampy night outside Nashville, and thousands have gathered for deliverance from that which haunts them. The preacher is Greg Locke, a right-wing firebrand who, over the past three years, has plunged into the world of demonolo … | Continue reading
Jamie Ducharme in Time Magazine: There are many flavors of friendship. Most U.S. adults say they have pals who fit into specific niches in their lives, like gym friends or work friends. These relationships may come and go as life circumstances change, fading away when someone swi … | Continue reading
Smriti Mallapaty in Nature: In the more than six million years since people and chimpanzees split from their common ancestor, human brains have rapidly amassed tissue that helps decision-making and self-control. But the same regions are also the most at risk of deterioration duri … | Continue reading
Peter Davidson at Literary Review: The German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), who is celebrated in these two books published to accompany the exhibitions in Hamburg and Berlin marking the 250th anniversary of his birth, has fascinated me all my life. When I w … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings I am taken with the hot animal of my skin, grateful to swing my limbs and have them move as I intend, though my knee, though my shoulder, though something is… | Continue reading
by Adele A. Wilby Many decades ago, I was fortunate to have had the opportunity of living in India for several years. I was enthralled by that country: its cultural richness; the environment; the food, but most of all the friendliness and warm hospitality of its diverse people. T … | Continue reading
Jody DiPerna at The Belt: When Raymond Thompson, Jr. started looking through the archives of the Hawks Nest tunnel, he was struck by how absent the five thousand plus men who worked the dig were. It was, rather, a celebration of the engineering feat and the important men involved … | Continue reading
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John Last at Noema Magazine: Doubts about the accepted chronology of human events are much older than Illig, Velikovsky or Freud. Already by the end of the 17th century, the Jesuit scholars Jean Hardouin and Daniel van Papenbroeck argued that, given the near-ubiquitous practice o … | Continue reading
Al Pacino in The New Yorker: My mother began taking me to the movies when I was a little boy of three or four. She worked at factory and other menial jobs during the day, and when she came home I was the only company she had. Afterward, I’d go through the characters in my head… | Continue reading
Hannah Thomasy in The Scientist: For decades, researchers have appreciated the intimate association between mental health and physical health, and studies suggest that the mind may impact various bodily systems.1 For example, high levels of stress rendered people more vulnerable … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. I’ve Been trying all day to remember that feeling when you first meet someone how a match gets struck on a rock how you carry that fire through each little task and all day the people you pass notice the lights on n … | Continue reading