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“Alongside noting each season’s nod to diversity, there has been a steady critique of what the series glosses over, particularly the oppressive, often violent hierarchies, masked by fashion and sentiment.” Patricia Matthew considers the fourth season of Bridgerton. | Lit Hub TV
Adrian McKinty on the 19th-century murder of God by Victorian science (as explored by Richard Holmes’s The Boundless Deep): “If Darwin killed God and Kelvin killed any point to doing anything where does that leave the artist or indeed the ordinary human being?” | Lit Hub Criticism
Revisiting the story of the Toulagoo Nine, a group of Black college students arrested for protesting the segregation of public spaces (by reading at the library). | Smithsonian Magazine
“There’s no conflict in Death Comes for the Archbishop, except for the grinding of tectonic plates, the breaking of treaties, the murder of nations.” Patricia Lockwood on Willa Cather. | London Review of Books
The internet’s free encyclopedia has banned AI-generated article content: “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies.” | 404 Media
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