Yes. And authors also depend on libraries for books that inform our own works. Try writing a book with a low four-figures advance and buying all your sources.

Ukraine has become a crucial security partner for Europe. Bringing it into the EU would bolster a continent that looks vulnerable among more predatory great powers

An original and very readable take on the US Constitution as viewed through the lens of The Domesday Book.

I wrote my last book when ChatGPT was at best a glorified thesaurus. That was then. nymag.com/intelligence...

Eight crested ibises have been released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after going extinct in the country.

AI stories over-explain themes and favor tidy, single-track plots while human stories frame protagonist' choices as more morally ambiguous and have increased temporal complexity. arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136

More New Yorkers are borrowing books from the New York Public Library than 15 years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...?

Many thanks to Ethan Iverson for hosting my expanded reflections on Sonny Rollins, including a Desert Island list of recordings. substack.com/@iverson/not...

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

'A rice-planting song voices ring out clear and strong how all art began' —Bashō **** Ohno Bakufu 麦風 Rice weeding c.1950 See less

But the stock market

Why wasn't this above the fold in today's @nytimes.com? On p. A17 there's a story about Mikie Sherrill's visit to Delaney Hall. No mention of Andy Kim being pepper-sprayed by ICE agents a few miles from NYC. Wtf? www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

Sonny Rollins died within hours of Miles Davis's 100th birthday. youtu.be/9IY29EZb1pI?...

I’d argue governors being denied access to federal law enforcement facilities in their state is part of what I call slow civil war.

I've been using Kagi for a couple years.

Within drone range of Russian territory, survival itself has become a military skill for ordinary Ukrainians. Even children know how to deal with the deadly drones, illustrating how deeply the tactic has dissolved the line between soldier and civilian.

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

This week, Poets & Writers awarded their annual Jackson Poetry Prize to Marianne Boruch.

When your wartime president is literally a comedian.

RIP -Philip Caputo, Who Wrote Blistering Vietnam War Memoir, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

To Kill a Mockingbird and Elie Wiesel’s Night are apparently too dangerous for young minds. At least the book banners haven’t figured out the politics of The Cat in the Hat yet. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

"When your war aim is 'status quo ante bellum,' you can skip the bellum"—Clausewitz, probably

I'm excited to see the research projects that the 2026 Kohut fellows work on over the summer at the @ropercenter.bsky.social. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

(202) Stravinsky/Leyetchkiss - The Rite of Spring - Vladimir Leyetchkiss - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYWt...

Argentinian singer-songwriter Paula Prieto, www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxGC...

Mark Turner, The Happiest Man on Earth youtu.be/iM7MUIrRqYk?...

talked with my parents tonight, and learned that the doctor who delivered me when I was born was himself born in a Japanese internment camp in Arkansas. The past is not that far past.

Celebrating the Music of Sieur (Jean) de Sainte-Colombe! (ca. 1640–1700) French viol (da gamba) player, teacher and composer. Here, his Les Pleurs, for two violes esgales, performed, and imaginatively filmed, by the exceptional duo Les Voix humaines in Paris: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Walter Smith III “Twio, Vol. 2” is The Guardian’s Jazz Album Of The Month! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a... Listen here: waltersmithiii.lnk.to/Twio-Vol2 “classic jazz is vividly alive in the hands of this incisive saxophonist”

I’ve listened to this recording of Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ for days.

Interesting piece from @hbr.org that fails to consider the scenario we lay out in an @theatlantic.com piece coming out today: the CEO doesn't just engage in political messaging but builds an entire alternative informational ecosystem to support his politics. hbr.org/2026/04/when...

The Welsh guitarist's fingerstyle playing drones with a haunted quality, but her flurry of bends, slides and chord clusters rip open the firmament. n.pr/3QJ7OJo

there is zero excuse for this

(45) Chopin: 7 Préludes - Beth Levin, pianist - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxrO...

Does this mean that Rod Dreher has to move to Belarus?

I specialize in discovering bands about twenty years after they were relevant. Up to White Stripes now.

Some of the new music that's been in my ears in the first few months of 2026. soundsoutoftime.substack.com/p/new-listen...

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends. James Gadson RIP.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Excited to get this new chapbook by @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, with whom I share Lemko heritage on one side of my family.

Thanks so much to Bulb Culture Collective for bringing this poem back to life.

Friends, My chapbook HUTSULKA, a series of feminist odes about the war in Ukraine, is still available for preorder from! I hope you'll purchase a copy: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu.... Please continue to stand with Ukraine and support Ukrainian/Ukrainian diaspora literature!

Michel de Montaigne would be amused.

Let’s all wish a very Happy Birthday to the great Charles Lloyd who is 88 years old today! Listen to the legendary saxophonist’s most recent Blue Note album “Figure In Blue”: charleslloyd.lnk.to/FigureInBlue Shop music & merch on the Blue Note Store: store.bluenote.com/collections/...

What subjective personal embodied attitudinal multi-layered tone in human writing is for. Good luck AI....

Any suggestions for replacing @evernote.bsky.social ? I'm a longtime user and don't want to move, but I'm not getting value commensurate with a 90%+ annual price increase.

Congratulations to San Francisco for inventing the long-prophesied banana that costs ten dollars sfstandard.com/2026/03/11/g...

Richard Hell has lived in the same rent-stabilized East Village apartment for over 50 years. He's got some great books.

I had a terrific conversation with @tanveernaseer.bsky.social about when corporate leaders should address political and social issues. This question is timely in light of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's conflict with the Pentagon. tanveernaseer.com/leadership-b...