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June 20, 2013
Jacob Silverman
Screen Play
Fiction about the internet fumbles toward eloquence
June 20, 2013
Laura Bennett
The Tedious Obsession With Authors' Retirements
June 19, 2013
Sarah Weinman
The Appeal of the Antiheroine
Two new novels get not-nice just right
June 17, 2013
Molly Fischer
Marathon Reading Masochism
The absurdity of the literary read-aloud
June 13, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
Bikesharing, Rape Police, and the Poverty Trap
June 10, 2013
Alex Heard
The Lost Boys
The story of WWII deserters
June 4, 2013
Sarah Courteau
Separating Fat from Fiction
A novel takes on the social issue du jour
May 30, 2013
Jessica Grose
The Case for One
Why having just one kid is better than you think
May 28, 2013
Daniel D'Addario
The Waning Power of Dan Savage
May 27, 2013
Sam Carter
Next Generation Latin American Fiction
What happens when the dictators are gone?
May 27, 2013
Sherwin B. Nuland
What Should We Call Depression?
A bold proposal by one of our best historians of psychiatry for how to make sense of the puzzling disease
May 26, 2013
G.W. Bowersock
Opera Is Not Dead
The rich history—and rich present—of a unique art form
May 23, 2013
Noreen Malone
Truths Universally Acknowledged
What the Kindle’s most-highlighted passages tell us about the soul of the American reader
May 20, 2013
Nicholas Lemann
How Michelle Rhee Misled Education Reform
A memoir illustrates what's wrong with her brand of school reform
May 20, 2013
Gabriel Debenedetti
What Hard News Misses
50 Years of Foreign Reporting from the NYRB
May 17, 2013
Peter Green
The Origins of Paul Scott's Vast Masterpiece
The epic of colonial India
May 17, 2013
Leslie Jamison
The Uses and Abuses of the Human Body
May 15, 2013
Dave Bry
Fatherhood Memoirs Multiply
Bring on the daddy wars
May 11, 2013
Michael Kimmage
Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher: Kindred Spirits
May 9, 2013
Maureen Corrigan
On Screen, 'Gatsby' is Beautiful—and Damned Boring
Five films later, Hollywood still doesn't get Fitzgerald's novel

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