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Pundit on a pilgrimage. For David Brooks, a midlife awakening yielded a most unexpected insight into himself: “I realized I was a religious person”... more »
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Robert Caro is a scholar of power — how it's obtained, how it's used. So it's odd that he seems so oblivious to his own... more »
“London’s only Lady detective.” Maud West had a talent for disguise, infiltration, and self-promotion. Her career is a snapshot of social change... more »
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The most enterprising Marxist. Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin, offers a manifesto for socialism that is thrillingly non-utopian... more »
The Naomi Wolf formula: convert dissatisfaction into epiphany, ignore facts and laws of nature, make blanket recommendations for all women... more »
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The first appearance of the word Orwellian? Mary McCarthy used it to describe the fashion magazine Flair... more »
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In the Western tradition, what’s the most powerful and persuasive construct of the human imagination? It’s the idea of hell... more »
The history of psychiatry is the history of our beliefs about our own minds. Breakthrough and disappointment, dogmas and counter-dogmas... more »
As Margaret Atwood has said, “every utopia contains a little dystopia” — something certainly true of Victorian fiction’s all-female paradises... more »
“Why the books? Why the babies? Why the essays? Why so many, why so fast?” Jill Lepore reveals her motivation — the memory of a brilliant friend... more »
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Intellectuals agree: Unlike our ancestors, we live in a disenchanted society. But what of our obsession with healing crystals, chakras, and the occult?... more »
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Intellectuals easily uncover Orwellian traits in American politics. They have a harder time, writes George Packer, acknowledging the Thought Police closer to home... more »
Andrea Dworkin was prescient; she lived a version of Me Too long before Me Too. Yet her analysis of pornography has little traction. Why?... more »
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This year the Modern Language Association’s annual conference took as its principal subject the death of its own significance... more »
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When are writers polymaths, and when are they merely trespassing superficially into areas of knowledge they haven’t mastered? The lesson of Naomi Wolf... more »
Art in an age of self-exposure. Gone is the withholding of secrets — novelists now put self-consciousness front and center... more »
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“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him," said Arthur Miller, who understood shame... more »
She had Sartre for conversation; he, only drunks and gamblers. Inside the short-lived long-distance relationship of Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir... more »
Leslie Epstein has spent 40 years in the same wooden chair in the same lopsided room teaching fiction. The job is changing... more »
Slaughterhouse Five at 50. Despite Vonnegut’s conviction that the book was a failure, it has endured surprisingly well... Living gold Two-Tone Purple Laquered Platinum Dipped Long Stem Genuine pink in Gift Box
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The web is awash in tips from successful women writers — here’s what they’re reading, their Sunday routine. Does it help us understand them?... more »
“A monster of arrogance and inconsideration.” Susan Sontag cut through received wisdom — an approach sorely missing today... Department 56 Possible Dreams Santa Claus “Got Catnip?” Clothtique Christmas Figurine
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The myth of advice. Successful people want to be helpful. But their advice sounds empty and canned — because it is... more »
Today’s intellectual mode: “Learn an attitude and inquire no further.” Marilynne Robinson on why certain ideas, like economic “associationism,” have vanished... BalsaCircle TRLYC 132-Inch Round Sequin Tablecloth for Wedding Happy New Year 6FT Table Cloth-Royal bluee
The cultural contradictions of Daniel Bell. He never could quite reconcile the Jewish conservative and the Yiddish radical within him... more »
E.H. Carr and the fate of facts. “By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation”... Suehiro Silicon Carbide Stone Grit 180 'GC-3 Kongou-to Whetstone' (Large 8.11 x 2.95 x 1.96),
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