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Rushdie’s new novel aims to skewer superstition and belief—but gets lost in its own games

In the wake of disaster, a writer listens to the voice in his head

How the phonograph helped create a world revolution

A new book contemplates the end of capitalism (again)—it's a nice story, but a terrible plan

The candidate's boasts and insults might seem juvenile, but his special way with words has a noble ancestry

A searing look at life on the street

Lucia Berlin defies our expectations for “grim” working-class fiction

Celebrating 100 years of “Prufrock”

Why we're all eating high-energy foods made for soldiers

At 99, George Braziller surveys his publishing empire in a new memoir

Helen Phillips’s novel evokes the menace of mundane work

Harper Lee’s juvenilia sprouts a literary industry