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March 1, 2014
Christopher Benfey
Malcolm Cowley Was One of the Best Literary Tastemakers of the Twentieth Century. Why Were His Politics So Awful?
March 1, 2014
Germaine Greer
'The Poetry of Sex' Isn't Actually About Sex
February 27, 2014
Leslie Jamison
Which Creates Better Writers: An MFA Program or New York City?
'MFA vs NYC' investigates the relationship between creativity and collectivity
February 26, 2014
John B. Judis
Conservative Critics Say My New Israel Book Is Anti-Semitic. They Must Not Have Read It Very Closely
February 26, 2014
Max Boot
Why Is Robert Gates Angry?
The former Defense Secretary: Indignant, effective, and often wrong.
February 25, 2014
Alice Robb
A Little Narcissism Is Good For You
February 23, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Don't Call Henry David Thoreau a Hermit
February 23, 2014
Michael Kimmage
The 150-Year Hunt for the Great American Novel
And why we need literary scholarship to reunite with literary criticism
February 21, 2014
Hillary Kelly
George Eliot's Strangely Modern Life
February 20, 2014
Hillary Kelly
John Sutherland's Little History of Literature Skims Too Lightly Over Its Subject
February 20, 2014
Laura Bennett
The Book Industry Is So Scared of Amazon, No One Will Talk on the Record
Except these people
February 19, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
The Five Worst Books Ever Written By Great Authors
February 19, 2014
Chloe Schama
Too Much Ambition Doesn't Always Break a Novel
February 17, 2014
Jessica Grose
Why We're So Obsessed with 'Natural' Childbirth
A new history of Lamaze explains the origins of the mythology
February 15, 2014
Sarah Ditum
Apparently Having an Opinion about Sex Is Now a Taboo
Maybe, possibly, there’s something wrong with your idea of what is sexy.
February 14, 2014
Richard Saul
ADHD Does Not Exist
February 9, 2014
Jonathan Galassi
The Writer, Seducer, Aviator, Proto-Fascist, Megalomaniac Prince Who Shaped Modern Italy
From Gabriele D'Annunzio to Silvio Berlusconi
February 1, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Charlie Crist's Achingly Bad Search for Self
February 1, 2014
Simon Heffer
What Really Happened at the Battle of Waterloo
January 31, 2014
Claire Carusillo
The 11 Most Alain de Botton Sentences in Alain de Botton’s New Book

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