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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…
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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…
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Basquiat the artist has become Basquiat the brand.
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Prosody has no fixed politics, but try telling that to the defenders of its two camps.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Yes, Orwell was dour and serious and suspicious of pleasure. He was also a witty humorist ... more » Geoff Dyer consistently offers brilliant…
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Why did the University of Nevada at Las Vegas sell The Believer, a beloved literary magazine, to a sex-toy company?... more » When time breaks, futures…
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Sometimes a desired perception of political purity gets in the way of achieving just outcomes. Olúfemi O. Táíwò explains... more » Trained as a doctor…
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Jason Epstein can lay claim to several titles, but perhaps none as consequential as king of the highbrow paperback... more » Late in his short life…
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