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Keith Gessen has written a parenting book. His wife, Emily Gould, calls him “the Christopher Columbus of mommy blogging” ... more » The history of wiretapping shows Americans’ shifting views on surveillance. Their chief reaction now is indifference ...

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When classicists were public intellectuals, none was more ubiquitous than Gilbert Highet... more » Shark week is a “Dumpster fire of nonsense.” The…

May 26

Basquiat the artist has become Basquiat the brand.

May 25

Prosody has no fixed politics, but try telling that to the defenders of its two camps.

May 24

Aristotle and the art of storytelling. His views on length, structure, plot, and character hold up more than 2,000 years later... more » Anna Wintour…

May 23

The stories held by small objects. What a cookbook, a violin, and a diary can tell us about Nazism ... more » By 1916, Wittgenstein had laid out his…

May 20

Selling Einstein. He was the best-paid American scientist of his time. He's been worth much more ever since ... more » Internet-bashing is having a…

May 19

In 1975, Caitlin Flanagan met Joan Didion at a dinner in Berkeley. She’s been chasing Didion ever since ... more » The digital humanities employ faux…

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