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The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan…
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The Perennial Predicament of the Artist with an Office Job
In “The Copywriter,” by Daniel Poppick, a poet searches for meaning in the grindset. Source link
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Marx, Palestine, and the Birth of Modern Terrorism
That a handful of revolutionaries could collect airliners worth millions of dollars and hold Western passengers ransom made it appear the…
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“Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
In 2023, the writer Patricia Lockwood chafed at Wallace’s supposed sainthood in a long piece for the London Review of Books. The essay, in…
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Easter Island and the Allure of “Lost Civilizations”
She also formed a bond with a Rapanui prophetess named Angata, the leader of an uprising against the sheep-ranching operation then…
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What We’re Reading
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Source link
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What Makes a Good Mother?
It is only in the modern era that women’s own experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering begins to be widely recorded, and here,…
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How to Recover from Caring Too Much
In Clayton’s and Josephson’s hands, though, the fawn response becomes something more pliable, less a sign of acute threat than a broadly…
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What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us?
Eventually, Ash finds in herself a gradual attraction, not only to religious practice but to the wild disharmonies of belief. Her mother…
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The Psychology of Fashion
Virginia Woolf had portrayed a similar tension between unity and fragmentation a decade earlier, with Mrs. Dalloway gazing at herself in…
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Briefly Noted
“Daring to Be Free,” “The Second Estate,” “Best Offer Wins,” and “A Love Story from the End of the World.” Source link
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Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro
Most of the book, though, is devoted to a “ludological biography” of the great man: a life in puzzle pieces, hitherto unassembled.…
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A Student Chases the Shadows of Tiananmen
In the beginning of Ha Jin’s new novel, “Looking for Tank Man,” a sophomore at Harvard seems to be on the verge of throwing her life away.…
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The Ancient Roots of Doing Time
People knew about incarceration. Seneca, the Roman philosopher and dramatist (and court counsellor), argued that punishment should be…
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What Makes Goethe So Special?
On his return to Frankfurt, he found it: the life of Götz von Berlichingen, an early-sixteenth-century knight with a prosthetic iron hand,…
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The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner
Much like her childhood identification with communism, her writing began as something of a joke. She was utterly devoted to the Party’s…
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Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Irish author Sally Rooney has told the High Court it is "almost certain" she cannot publish new novels in the UK and may have to withdraw…
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What Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway?
The endgame of capitalism, in his account, is a world where “almost nothing escaped commodification.” Beckert here refers to commodities…
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Where Dante Guides Us
Hell is nevertheless filled with bloody and horrific torments. In Dante’s eyes, some sinners fully deserve what they get: corrupt clerics,…
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If the Legal Campaigns Against Donald Trump Had Ended Differently
“Injustice” largely ignores those cases. Its drama is tightly enclosed within the D.O.J.—illuminatingly but also, at times, suffocatingly…
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Japan’s Mizuho books 44% rise in Q2 profit, raises forecast
The company’s results show how Japan’s largest banks are cashing in on the end of ultra-low interest rates Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group…
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Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time…
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The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go
At its peak, “Your Show of Shows” had twenty-five million viewers, and Caesar was hailed as a genius. Albert Einstein and Leonard…
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A Bulgarian Novelist Explores What Dies When Your Father Does
That’s where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It’s always afternoon…