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Kazuo Ishiguro, Unlocked: The Butler as Metaphor
“Kazuo Ishiguro inhabits his characters as if there were no true Kazuo Ishiguro to be known.”
The Paris Review · EN
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Belgrade Diary: Election Day in Serbia
The Serbian Progressive Party's leader, Aleksandar Vučić, finally had a real competitor in Student List.
The Paris Review · EN
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The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)
Carl Jung’s copy of the “mute book”, an alchemical manual charting (through a series of images) the “humid way” of forging the Philosopher’s Stone.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)
A history of the Evil One, from the earliest times to the present.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Rudolf Kalvach’s Wiener Werkstätte Postcards (1907)
Postcards that summon medieval grotesques and brightly coloured folk art, but also feel distinctly modern.
Public Domain Review · EN
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“Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the slightest stimulus, seemed to jump, strike out with their limbs, or mimic languages they could not speak. Ross Bullen introduces us to these so-called “Jumping Frenchmen” and to their greatest investigator, George M. Beard, who saw a link in their behavior between religious frenzy and neurasthenia.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900)
Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.
Public Domain Review · EN
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“Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865)
A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Albrecht Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants (1525)
The design for a difficult-to-interpret monument that was never intended to be built.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain
When the Bristol Channel flooded in 1607, it was not just one of the worst natural disasters in British history, it was also a sign, for many, that they had strayed from the path of God. Erik Crnkovich examines the overlap of miraculous weather and the early modern printing industry, which cultivated a thirst for all things occult, exotic, and odd.
Public Domain Review · EN
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Website migration costs are going to zero
What happens when AI makes website migrations almost free?
Sidebar · EN
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The New York Times turns 175
A custom 175 mark and identity system to use across editorial, opinion, advertising, events and marketing.
Sidebar · EN
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Struggle together
I learned programming and design by trying, failing, and trying again. When I hit a wall, I figured out how to climb it.
Sidebar · EN
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Stageshow
Create better faux UI with agents. Avoid results often look sloppy and heavy-handed.
Sidebar · EN
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A select should tell you something
Customizable select isn’t just a prettier dropdown. Five before/after demos show how options can carry what people need to decide.
Sidebar · EN
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Who owns the doubt?
Nobody arrives at their first design job doubting their first idea; they defend it, usually too loudly.
Sidebar · EN
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The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetings
Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot. Give it a try during your next meeting.
Sidebar · EN
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New Jersey, the Diesel State
A data center in the Meadowlands recently leaked five thousand gallons of fuel into a nearby creek. The Riverkeeper of the Hackensack gives a tour.
The New Yorker · EN
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Dante de Blasio Is Off Vocal Rest
As a newborn, the son of the former mayor won free music lessons for life at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music—and then he quit. Now he’s finding his way back to the notes.
The New Yorker · EN
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How Democrats Are Reclaiming the Politics of Populism
In the midterms’ most competitive races, Democratic candidates are reviving an old party message: that the Republicans are selling out to the highest bidder.
The New Yorker · EN
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An Exiled Filmmaker’s Unsparing View of Contemporary Russia
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur” is the first independent feature to portray Russian life during the war with Ukraine.
The New Yorker · EN
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Common Scams to Avoid
Thinking of throwing that ball for your dog? He might be scamming you.
The New Yorker · EN