"The socialization of medicine is not simply a process of installing a government payer to pick up the tab for a system that remains otherwise intact, but a transformation of the _...Read More_

"HOLLYWOOD IS TO THE CINEMA what the United States is to the world. Its power is outsize. India, China, Nigeria, Russia — among many other countries — each release more movies annually than the five-member studio syndicate based in Los _...Read More_

>"The analyst is enjoined not to hate. Or at least, not in the way the patient is permitted on the couch. Psychoanalysis has historically set neutrality as a goal: to _...Read More_

"Not even love will save Yanagihara’s characters. Her fantasies of suffering and illness are designed only to produce a very specific kind of love, and this love is not curative but palliative — it results, sooner or later, in the death of _...Read More_

“It is a revelation somehow, to realize that the same intelligence that builds cathedrals and invents gunpowder is also, and in fact primarily, responsible for itself.”

That is not how social isolation works, young lady.

Could a machine have an unconscious? _...Read More_

Mechanical metaphors for the unconscious would evolve alongside modern technologies. Freud spoke of the drives as hydraulic; Lacan envisioned the deepest level of the psyche as algorithmic.

An extraordinary posthumous essay by the late Anthony Veasna So on music, the struggle to become a writer, and grieving the friend you shared so many dreams with when he turns away from the dream and takes his life.

>"Nobody is innocent, says the ice cube. You’re not as experienced as you think you are, says the ice cube tray. Experience isn’t everything, says the ice cube. What else is _...Read More_

>"Versus Niall Ferguson and Jordan Peterson ... a set of essays from a writer who excels at calling out intellectual vapidities _...Read More_

Yet, in the spreading matrix of repeatable development patterns, the very stupidity of the multipliers makes the wishful theory seem potentially viable. These spaces are full of multipliers that, if altered, might have viral population _...Read More_

English translations of Haruki Murakami’s fiction have been published by a wide array of magazines in the US and UK (including in Granta). But Murakami has enjoyed an especially close relationship with the New Yorker, which first published _...Read More_