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best books, essays, and poems of 2025
an invitation to read more in the new year ✦
Jan 14
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Celine Nguyen
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writing is an inherently dignified human activity
the case for starting your own newsletter ✦ and reflections on 2 years, 52 posts, and 31,000 subscribers
Dec 29, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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everything i read in october & november 2025
do you really need to read all the books you buy? ✦ plus reviews of 2 excellent debut novels ✦ an Italian novella about rogue AI ✦ and an attempt to…
Dec 3, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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conversations with friends (on tech, culture, criticism, and bait)
my podcast conversation with the writer and technologist Jasmine Sun ✦
Nov 18, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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the occasional art report
the pros and cons of nostalgia, Wolfgang Tillmans, Korean ceramics, ideal translations, and the best show of Frieze London
Nov 5, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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how to speak to a computer
against chat interfaces ✦ a brief history of artificial intelligence ✦ and the (worthwhile) problem of other minds
Oct 20, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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everything i read in september 2025
novels & nonfiction about AI poetry, lost love, corporate anthropologists, and more ✦
Oct 5, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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everything i read in july & august 2025
15 books on love, communism, AIDS activism, and sleeping your way to the top
Sep 3, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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how to expand the market for literature (and literary criticism)
the personal and social function of criticism ✦ and why the humanities are not dead, thank you very much
Aug 27, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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exercises in style: bill beckley's "cake story"
short fiction and photography inspired by 1970s conceptual art ✦ and how to get started with flash fiction!
Jul 25, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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everything i read in june 2025
5 books about design, grief, spirituality and history ✦ and recent films from China, Taiwan and Vietnam
Jul 2, 2025
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Celine Nguyen
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annie ernaux fixed my disintegrating attention span
the (almost) definitive ranking of Ernaux's books ✦ everything I read in March, April, and May 2025
Jun 22, 2025
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