Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind — Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs. @aeon.co @prashantgarg.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/can-a...

Crooked Cross — “Set in a small village in the Bavarian Alps, Sally Carson’s ‘Crooked Cross’ presents an eerily familiar portrait of the rise of fascism,” Rebecca Mead writes in The New Yorker. @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/books/second...

We thought we were just joking / Trying dreams on for size / We never realized we’d be stuck with them for the rest of our lives — Pulp, from Farmers Market (More) Photograph: Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker. Credit: Tom Jackson welovepulp.info

‘Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative,’ by Isabella Hammad (Fern Press, 2024) — “… a book that calls us to witness our place in history.” (Sally Rooney) www.penguin.co.uk/books/463942...

Through rituals of prayer, a monk cultivates a quietly radical concept of freedom — “Silence is an enabling thing. It frees you for listening, for availability, for avoiding imposing yourself …” @aeon.co aeon.co/videos/throu...