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The Best Books of 2025
The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #48
The many interesting things I read in February 2025

2025's Word of the Year (Half the Answer #60, with Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley)
Caitlin and Trent chat with linguistics scholars Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley on what word most exemplifies 2025. Was it a new coinage? A pre-existing word that gained a new meaning or usage this year? A word that seemed to be on everybody's lips in 2025? Half the

Pamela Paul, Cancel Culture Grifters, and the Republic of Letters
It's 2023. How is this possibly still a thing?

A countdown creates suspense and tension: preparing for 2025
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #65
The many interesting things I read in July 2026


Things that make us smart
Keep the news in the Wayback Machine. Sign Fight for the Future's letter.

AI Engineer's 2025 | Unsloth Documentation
Slides to our AI Engineer's Worlds Fair 2025 Workshop.

2027 Annual Meeting Presidential Program Theme
The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025
Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon - December, 3 2025 | Notion
🗓️ Luma event description

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #63
The many interesting things I read in May 2026
