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As Sacks aged, he felt as if he were gazing at people from the outside. But he also noticed a new kind of affection for humans—“homo sap.” “They’re…
Read more Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?Candidly. The past, the sensations of the past. Now!in cuneiform, of umbrella satrap square-carts with hotdogsand onions of red syrup blended, of sand bejewelling the prepucein tank suits,…
Read more V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern PoetryIf it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term “humanism” with something broader, more capacious. A bright, shiny neologism…
Read more The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith