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In the November issue: Oscar Schwartz on Australia’s social-media ban, Jackson Lears on anti-imperialist republicanism, Sam Kestenbaum on spiritual seeking with LLMs, Lisa Borst on Eurovision, Nicole Krauss on Paul Klee, a story by Madeline ffitch, and more.
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“Reviewing two books about the Dead in a single column is a psychedelic bardo unto itself. I find myself stuck here, craving enlightenment.”
Dan Piepenbring reviews Dead Dharma and Friends of the Devil for New Books.
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“Try it: Ask your friendly robot intern about the spiral protocol of the lattice resonance. Or the mirror architect of the frequency. Does it echo?”
@skestenbaum reports on a new movement of spiritual seekers communing with chat bots.
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“Number of foreign objects retained post procedure between April 11 and July 31, 2026 according to NHS data: 37.”
From a provisional count of “never events” published in September by England’s National Health Service.
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“After years of research into the matter, scientific consensus concerning the relationship between social-media use and well-being was still elusive. In fact, questions about the internet’s social effects had cleaved researchers into opposing camps since the Nineties…”
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Chatbot madness, spirits summoned through the screen, aspiring cults, digital eschaton, synchronicities, LLMs babbling in slopolalia…. in the new @Harpers, I go long on our collective AI psychosis and new-and-old varieties of religious experience harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
“Where some felt empowered, others felt harassed, hurried, pressured, and discomposed. The clatter of modern life rang harshly in their ears. Instantaneous news struck them as ‘superficial, sudden, unsifted, too fast for the truth.’” —James Gleick
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“I like madness, what can I say? And if it’s Nietzsche’s, all the more.”
From Camera Obscura, by Enrique Vila-Matas, out next month with Yale University Press (@yalepress).
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“The effect—Hapsburg-era grandiosity blown out by contemporary tastelessness and bling—would be a defining dialectic of the week.”
Lisa Borst (@lisa_borst) on Eurovision’s moral crisis.
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“It was not a disciplinary measure, the argument went, but regulatory solicitude: a way to save the wholesome, sun-drenched ideal of Aussie childhood from the corroding effects of screens and algorithms.”
Oscar Schwartz reports on Australia’s social media ban.
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“Gerrymandering here was justified by gerrymandering elsewhere. When Republicans did it, it was election rigging; when Team Blue did it, it was wholesome and unobjectionable.” —Thomas Frank
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The Australian social media ban for kids under 16 has been a massive flop. And yet the policy is being copied by many other countries around the world. For @Harpers magazine, I try to figure out why.
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For @Harpers, I gaze into the fires of our collective chatbot madness, and the varieties of visionary encounter now afoot: spirit communion via LLM... the heralding of slop and its generation as mediumship, channeling... the stuff of revelation itself harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
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In May I went to Vienna to listen to some mostly bewildering music and talk to people who were protesting Israel’s participation in the world’s most-watched pop music event, which turned 70 this year. In @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
“The jagged sierra of McCarthy’s work created its own weather, that’s to say. … his fiction scarcely seems to belong to the American culture, literary or otherwise, of the half century and more during which the books were first published.” —@kunktation
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I wrote about Cormac McCarthy (including the new biography) for @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
Nicole Krauss on Paul Klee, Walter Benjamin, and the Angel of History.
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“His rats were sisters. They were a gift from his dad, who’d shown up with a shoebox and stayed three whole days. They get tumors eventually, Ernest’s dad said. They can be quite affectionate.”
From a new story by Madeline ffitch (@madelineffitch1).
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