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September 14, 2014
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Was the Spiritual Father of the GOP Actually a Democrat?
September 11, 2014
Esther Breger
These Books Won't Change Your Life: A Guide to Literary Self-Help
September 11, 2014
Trevor Quirk
I Thought I Hated the New Atheists. Then I Read Sam Harris's New Book.
The new atheist trounce: Science, spirituality, and common sense bump heads
September 10, 2014
Justin Driver
How Scalia's Beliefs Completely Changed the Supreme Court
And therefore, the country
September 9, 2014
William Deresiewicz
'A Great Symphony of American Junk'
What David Foster Wallace misunderstood about John Updike
September 7, 2014
Sean Wilentz
Why Has the American Literary Canon Admitted So Few Historians?
Two mid-century scholars are finally getting their due
September 3, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Metaphysical Case for Abolishing Political Parties
Do political parties corrupt the souls of their members?
August 30, 2014
Leo Robson
How Scientists Captured the Brains of Amis and McEwan
August 29, 2014
Jason Guriel
Miss de Beauvoir, Meet 'Alien v. Predator'
The pastiche poetry of Michael Robbins
August 27, 2014
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
I Hated English Class, Until We Read Nabokov
The novelist taught me how to leave room for magic
August 26, 2014
Piper Kerman
The Real-Life Piper from "Orange Is the New Black" Talks Courtroom Fashion
August 26, 2014
Juliet Lapidos
When Are Metafictional Games a Mask For Laziness?
The complex style of Ben Lerner
August 16, 2014
Frederick Deknatel
How One Woman's Luxury Damascus Villa Became a Refugee Camp
The war in Syria seeps into the Old City
August 15, 2014
Jonathan Glancey
Erotic Architecture: the Sexual History of Great Buildings
August 15, 2014
Lisa Appignanesi
Can Science Offer New Answers to Mental Illness?
August 9, 2014
Adam Kirsch
One of Liberalism's Greatest Defenders Doesn't Deserve His Obscurity
The pathos of Stefan Zweig and his overdue revival
August 8, 2014
Rowan Williams
Dylan Thomas Is The Quintessential Poet for Adolescence
But that's not all he was
August 6, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
The Japanese Literature Trend That's Half Cupcake, Half Decapitation
August 4, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
Knopf Book Designer Hates the Classic 'Great Gatsby' Cover
In an interview, Peter Mendulsund explains why some covers work and others fail
August 4, 2014
Anne Applebaum
Hillary Clinton's Crystal Ball
How "Hard Choices" predicts her presidential campaign

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