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The origins of beach reading. A 19th-century invention, it was for “airy, buoyant, salty, sunny, breezy” books. Or, it was the consumption of “pestiferous trash”... more »
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Lillian Ross’s brilliant viciousness spanned American letters: Capote was a leech, Nora Ephron a liar. And you wouldn’t have wanted to get her started on the NYRB... more »
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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 »
Graham Greene in Havana. What better destination for a novelist who delighted in exposing conflicting loyalties and shifting political allegiances?... more »
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 »
How best to tell the story of philosophy? Instead of moving from one peak to another, wander the fertile valleys in between... more »
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The rise of Pushkinography. Academics have flocked to the author, at the rate of three books published per day. Is there anything new to say?... more »
The first appearance of the word Orwellian? Mary McCarthy used it to describe the fashion magazine Flair... more »
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John Williams put a lot of himself into his most famous protagonist, William Stoner, a lackluster professor and difficult man... more »
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Art criticism is art. It makes meaning out of the seemingly indecipherable, elucidating existential stakes. No one does this better than Peter Schjeldahl... Tater Tats Pop-Up Tattoo Parlor 225 Temporary Vegetable Tattoos
Step aside, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill. Meet the oddballs, underdogs, and outcasts of British philosophy... more »
The dissents of Wendell Berry. His dislikes include weather forecasts, unsmelly bathrooms, ballroom dancing, and the moon landing... CFHJN HOME Taps Black gold Space Aluminum Faucet Household Bathroom Basin Faucet Hot And Cold Faucet Above Counter Basin Mixer Taps
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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Death of the anonymous author. If algorithms can pinpoint the identity of a writer — say, Elena Ferrante — does art as a whole lose out?... 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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Lacan, the terrible. He was avaricious, classist, and an awful father. Tasked with treating his suffering daughter, he headed to the brothel instead... more »
The origins of beach reading. A 19th-century invention, it was for “airy, buoyant, salty, sunny, breezy” books. Or, it was the consumption of “pestiferous trash”... 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 »
Sylvia Plath at Smith College. She read Chaucer and Dante, and she broke off relationships. “I want a man who isn’t jealous of my creativity in other fields than children”... more »
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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Against knowledge. It’s a crude, archaic concept, a relic of a bygone age, and it harms our real ways of thinking... 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 »
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Today’s intellectual mode: “Learn an attitude and inquire no further.” Marilynne Robinson on why certain ideas, like economic “associationism,” have vanished... Basin Faucets Sink Mixer tap Bathroom Faucet Waterfall Water taps Faucet Handle Sink Faucet Mixer tap
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