Russia raided its own Institute of Philosophy and put the head of an Aristotle translation project under house arrest — the backstory involves a disgruntled ex-director, Dugin's Telegram network, and six years of nationalist pressureSally Rooney finally has a Hebrew publisher: a two-person basement operation in Jerusalem that is the only Israeli house meeting BDS criteriaA Nobel laureate discloses she uses AI to brainstorm, and the literary world reacts as though she admitted to ghostwritingAn anonymous X essayist mounts a serious philosophical defense of social masks, civility, and deliberate self-erasure — with a bibliography to back it upWhat happens when 340 newspapers block the Wayback Machine, and why scholars should be paying attentionArtforum revisits the moment when criticism felt like a life-or-death undertaking — and finds the contrast with the present uncomfortableMake of that what you will.
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