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May 2, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Technology Is Taking Over English Departments
The false promise of the digital humanities
April 29, 2014
Chloe Schama
'Atlas Shrugged' No Longer Ranks Among Americans' Top Ten Favorite Books
April 29, 2014
Amanda Palleschi
These Two Women Have Been to 17 Weddings and Interviewed 80 Bridesmaids
Here's what they learned about the wedding-industrial complex.
April 27, 2014
Emily Wilson
Slut-Shaming Helen of Troy
If we blame her for the Trojan War, what does it say about us?
April 26, 2014
Abbas Milani
Thomas Jefferson Was a Muslim
A candidate was accused of being a closet Muslim. In the 18th century, not the 21st.
April 24, 2014
Marc Tracy
Piketty's 'Capital': A Hit That Was, Wasn't, Then Was Again
How the French tome has rocked the tiny Harvard University Press
April 23, 2014
Robert M. Solow
Thomas Piketty Is Right
Everything you need to know about 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'
April 21, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Barbara Ehrenreich: I'm an Atheist, But Don't Rule Out "Mystical Experiences"
A Q&A with the author of "Living With a Wild God"
April 20, 2014
Juliet Lapidos
Why Do Our Offices Make Us So Miserable?
The unhappy history of the workplace
April 20, 2014
David Greenberg
U.S. Cold War Policy Was Designed by a Bigot
George Kennan's diaries reveal just how much he hated America
April 18, 2014
Noah Feldman
The Stars of Jo Becker's Misleading Book on Gay Marriage Are Racing to Claim Even More Credit
April 18, 2014
Paul Berman
García Márquez Liberated the Spanish Language from the Tyranny of the Past
April 17, 2014
Michael Jacobs
Gabriel García Márquez: 1927-2014
An encounter with the literary giant
April 17, 2014
Aneesh Chopra
How GPS Is Being Used to Fight the Asthma Epidemic
April 16, 2014
Stuart Taylor Jr.
The Many Ways in Which The New Book About the Duke Lacrosse Case is Wrong
April 12, 2014
Cynthia Ozick
How Kafka Actually Lived
He did not transcend his Jewishness, no matter what Updike claimed
April 11, 2014
Evan Hughes
The Norwegian Government Keeps Book Publishers Alive
And other reasons it's the best place in the world to be a writer
April 10, 2014
Jenna Weissman Joselit
Religion Only Works When It Appeals to the Senses
April 8, 2014
Evan Hughes
Karl Ove Knausgaard Became a Literary Sensation by Exposing His Every Secret
Readers love him for it. He hates himself.
April 7, 2014
Chloe Schama
Lydia Davis Is the Perfect Writer for the Twitter Era

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