Laura Marsh
@lauramarsh.bsky.social
Literary Editor, The New Republic
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Well it’s not long sentence, but I did get to write this essay for @newrepublic.com! I strongly encourage you to join us.
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Well it’s not long sentence, but I did get to write this essay for @newrepublic.com! I strongly encourage you to join us.
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
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Nobody else is writing about this, so please re-post my two-part series about the imminent sale of what one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Preservationists need to move fast.
Part one:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
Part two:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
Part one:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
Part two:
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The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing
Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Nobody else is writing about this, so please re-post my two-part series about the imminent sale of what one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Preservationists need to move fast.
Part one:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
Part two:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
Part one:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
Part two:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
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Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
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I was in the midst of writing a nice, fluffy rave about s2 of PLATONIC for my Sept column when I decided I really wanted to write this instead — so, thanks to @lauramarsh.bsky.social for enabling a last-minute pivot.
Quick thread of the great journos and critics upon which this essay is built 1/x
Quick thread of the great journos and critics upon which this essay is built 1/x
I wrote about how our weak, screen-addicted president is bullying the weak, Trump-addicted medium of television.
For @newrepublic.com, on the TV beat:
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
For @newrepublic.com, on the TV beat:
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
How Late-Night Became a Free Speech Battleground
Trump has always cared about traditional talk shows, even if they are a waning genre.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I was in the midst of writing a nice, fluffy rave about s2 of PLATONIC for my Sept column when I decided I really wanted to write this instead — so, thanks to @lauramarsh.bsky.social for enabling a last-minute pivot.
Quick thread of the great journos and critics upon which this essay is built 1/x
Quick thread of the great journos and critics upon which this essay is built 1/x
Kipnis on Agnes Callard:
newrepublic.com/article/1907...
newrepublic.com/article/1907...
Is Agnes Callard Making You Uncomfortable?
In the philosopher’s world, provocation and controversy are inseparable from the examined life.
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January 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Kipnis on Agnes Callard:
newrepublic.com/article/1907...
newrepublic.com/article/1907...
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I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt.
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?
Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.
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January 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt.
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
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remembering David Lynch, for @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/1903...
The Inimitable Weirdness of David Lynch
The filmmaker, who died this week, mixed the menacing with the everyday, the banal with the surreal and sublime.
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January 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
remembering David Lynch, for @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/1903...
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I feel really lucky that I have an editor (hi @lauramarsh.bsky.social) who has supported me writing a handful of essays about TV form this year. I'm proud of this one about 3 BODY PROBLEM and the sorry state of visual style on streaming television. newrepublic.com/article/1781...
“3 Body Problem”’s Failure of Imagination
The new Netflix show faithfully adapts Liu Cixin’s bestselling novels but lacks imagination.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:37 PM
I feel really lucky that I have an editor (hi @lauramarsh.bsky.social) who has supported me writing a handful of essays about TV form this year. I'm proud of this one about 3 BODY PROBLEM and the sorry state of visual style on streaming television. newrepublic.com/article/1781...
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SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, one of the best shows on TV, ended last night with one last big number. This is what I wrote about it a few weeks ago. They left it all on the floor. newrepublic.com/article/1875...
December 9, 2024 at 2:43 PM
SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, one of the best shows on TV, ended last night with one last big number. This is what I wrote about it a few weeks ago. They left it all on the floor. newrepublic.com/article/1875...
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why is this written like this lol www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...
www.vanityfair.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:16 PM
why is this written like this lol www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
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My review of Ta-Nehisi’s latest is finally up! Lots of context here you won’t get elsewhere.
newrepublic.com/article/1861...
newrepublic.com/article/1861...
Ta-Nehisi Coates Corrects the Record
A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.
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October 9, 2024 at 1:28 PM
My review of Ta-Nehisi’s latest is finally up! Lots of context here you won’t get elsewhere.
newrepublic.com/article/1861...
newrepublic.com/article/1861...
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up with the novel of ideas!
Rachel Kushner wrote a perfect spy novel ft my favorite subject: Neaderthals
newrepublic.com/article/1852...
newrepublic.com/article/1852...
Rachel Kushner’s Spy Games
In “Creation Lake,” a brilliant secret agent delights in her infiltration of a niche world of ideas.
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August 28, 2024 at 8:42 PM
up with the novel of ideas!
Rachel Kushner wrote a perfect spy novel ft my favorite subject: Neaderthals
newrepublic.com/article/1852...
newrepublic.com/article/1852...
Rachel Kushner’s Spy Games
In “Creation Lake,” a brilliant secret agent delights in her infiltration of a niche world of ideas.
newrepublic.com
August 28, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Rachel Kushner wrote a perfect spy novel ft my favorite subject: Neaderthals
newrepublic.com/article/1852...
newrepublic.com/article/1852...
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I reviewed Alien: Romulus. I think it gets too caught up in fidelity to the franchise.
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Alien: Romulus Tried Too Hard To Be an Alien Movie
The latest installment lacks the imaginative strangeness of the earlier films.
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August 27, 2024 at 11:37 AM
I reviewed Alien: Romulus. I think it gets too caught up in fidelity to the franchise.
newrepublic.com/article/1850...
newrepublic.com/article/1850...
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My TNR essay about the Fall of the House of Usher is also kind of about the Fall of the House of Streaming in ways that might be interesting to folks with no interest in this show. FYI! newrepublic.com/article/1759...
October 11, 2023 at 8:45 PM
My TNR essay about the Fall of the House of Usher is also kind of about the Fall of the House of Streaming in ways that might be interesting to folks with no interest in this show. FYI! newrepublic.com/article/1759...
This ruling seems good https://newrepublic.com/article/172830/warhol-goldsmith-supreme-court-ai
May 18, 2023 at 8:05 PM
This ruling seems good https://newrepublic.com/article/172830/warhol-goldsmith-supreme-court-ai
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Gonna start calling ChatGPT's hyper-authoritative way of writing completely false information the Turing-Kruger effect
May 12, 2023 at 10:40 PM
Gonna start calling ChatGPT's hyper-authoritative way of writing completely false information the Turing-Kruger effect
I would not be surprised if the pressure to publish at insane volume persists long after the social infrastructure that rewarded it is gone https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/05/no-need-to-shoot-the-messenger-its-muddled-ideas-are-doing-the-job/
May 17, 2023 at 3:22 PM
I would not be surprised if the pressure to publish at insane volume persists long after the social infrastructure that rewarded it is gone https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/05/no-need-to-shoot-the-messenger-its-muddled-ideas-are-doing-the-job/