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Reinventing the wheel
I'm fascinated by hinges of technological transition—moments when the modern world realizes, almost a little too late, that it's saying good-bye to the…
Caleb Crain
May 6
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On Being Insulted by Literature
Should you keep reading a book if it insults the kind of person you are? In the old days the answer was: if it's good, yes, you're supposed to. Good as…
Caleb Crain
Aug 2, 2021
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Oh L'Amour
Peter and I thoroughly enjoyed the HBO Max show It's a Sin this weekend. Set in London in the 1980s, it follows a group of young gay men as they come…
Caleb Crain
Feb 22, 2021
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Toby, 2008–2021
From a journal entry, dated 11 March 2008: On Friday morning, Peter and I threw productivity to the winds and drove out to North Shore Animal League to…
Caleb Crain
Apr 10, 2021
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Time to Let Go
Revisiting Tom Cruise
Caleb Crain
Jun 13
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Plein soleil
Prospect Park, 18 April 2022
Caleb Crain
Apr 19
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Notebook: Stanisław Lem and the Holocaust
The sources behind my latest New Yorker article
Caleb Crain
Jan 10
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Temporary
Once, when I was little, my family went on a drive-through safari, the kind where humans stay safely in a car while lions and giraffes roam freely. I…
Caleb Crain
Mar 28, 2019
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An interim congeries
“There is a certain fertile sadness which I would not avoid, but rather earnestly seek. . . . It saves my life from being trivial.” —Thoreau in his…
Caleb Crain
Mar 10
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Bayesian realism
But what happened? I found myself asking, a couple of days ago, after I finished Stanislaw Lem's novel The Investigation. I think this is a natural if…
Caleb Crain
Feb 16, 2021
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A review of Sally Rooney's new novel
Hi, friends. A brief heads-up, to say that for the September issue of The Atlantic, I reviewed Sally Rooney's new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You…
Caleb Crain
Aug 10, 2021
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Buntings, painted and lazuli
Lake Waco Wetlands, 21 May 2022
Caleb Crain
May 22
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