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Couch Burning Season
“The university as it should be — serious, studious, and earnest.”
9 hrs ago
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Theodore Gary
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Veritas
Postscript No. 12 | Isabel Mehta on the humanities at Harvard
Apr 7
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The New Critic
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Isabel Mehta
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Beauty, The Last Taboo
“I was content — until it was time to read Nabokov’s Lolita.”
Apr 2
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Isabel Mehta
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March 2026
Monitoring the Monitoring
“I’d only shown up [to the Polymarket bar] in time for the nasty hangover that the whole world would have to feel.”
Mar 31
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Will Diana
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The New Critic Secession
A Manifesto of 42 Theses
Mar 25
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The New Critic
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Showing Your Work
Postscript No. 11 | Josie Barboriak on the critic and her publics
Mar 21
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Josie Barboriak
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The New Critic
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Good Reading, Good Thinking, Good Writing
“To criticize properly is to show the process of judgment...to struggle with what we like.”
Mar 18
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Josie Barboriak
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Naked Journalism
Postscript No. 10 | Sarah Miller and Charlotte Hampton on covering campus politics and editing student newspapers
Mar 13
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Sarah Miller
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The New Critic
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Chasing the Story
“I noted when the organizers said, ‘This is our Vietnam.’ It embodied the story.”
Mar 11
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Sarah Miller
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P.S. The New New Critic
Unveiling our grand plan
Mar 10
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The New Critic
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THE MANIFESTO IS DEAD! THE MANIFESTO IS DEAD!
“Writing a manifesto means self-actualization to the highest degree. It necessitates a deft attention to the world that is akin to prayer.”
Mar 5
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Cathy Li
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The Manifesto with No Name
Postscript No. 9 | Ramsey Alsheikh on the eros of activism
Mar 5
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Ramsey Alsheikh
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The New Critic
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