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One of the pleasures of writing here is that you don’t need a bold new insight or novel argument to justify posting about a book: you can simply share…
Sep 20
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Kieran Setiya
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Reader's Digest: September 13, 2025
A recent exchange in the New Left Review asks an unusual question: Why is there the amount of art that there is?
Sep 13
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Kieran Setiya
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Analogy
Philosophy and poetry are mired in an ancient quarrel, so we’re told—on one side, the pursuit of demystifying truth; on the other, enchanted polyphony…
Sep 6
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Kieran Setiya
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A few months into the pandemic, my wife and I adopted a new pastime: we would complete the New York Times crossword puzzle every day.
Aug 23
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Kieran Setiya
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Reader's Digest: August 16, 2025
How many ways are there to punctuate a sentence? When I wrote about the topic more than two years back, I counted fourteen basic punctuation marks…
Aug 16
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Kieran Setiya
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No Entry
It shouldn’t be surprising that art critics have wanted to read Doors—Christian Marclay’s looping montage of movie clips, in which one protagonist…
Aug 9
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Kieran Setiya
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Reader's Digest: August 2, 2025
There’s a style of essay I enjoy, in which an author takes a book review as the excuse to retrospect on an entire career.
Aug 2
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Kieran Setiya
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Literally Metaphorical
Pedants complain that the word “literally” is more often misused than used correctly. “This post will literally blow your mind! Your brain will…
Jul 26
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Kieran Setiya
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Reader's Digest: July 19, 2025
An article in the Smithsonian Magazine brings word of a 7th great extinction, not as terrifying as the 6th, but not on that account negligible; in it…
Jul 19
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Kieran Setiya
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Horse Whispering
I confess that, when I allow myself to think about it, I am amazed that I understand so little about what it is we philosophers do.
Jul 12
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Kieran Setiya
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