Cat Marnell and Alana Massey’s Dueling Visions of the Art of Confessional Writing

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Is a Bob Dylan Song a Poem Too? What About a Good Poem?

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A Conversation With Daphne Merkin About Grappling With Severe Depression

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Feb 17, 2017 11:54 AM

How Critics Misunderstand James Baldwin’s Influence on Today’s Great Black Nonfiction Writers

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Feb 15, 2017 4:49 PM

Robert D. Kaplan Attempts to Explain American Greatness Via a Road Trip Across America

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The Story of One of the Most Outrageous Men Ever to Live Was Lost to History—Until Now

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Peter Thiel’s Gambit to Incubate Teen Geniuses Deserves More Skepticism Than This Book Gives It

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Feb 09, 2017 10:48 AM

The Memoirs of Hillary Clinton’s Ghostwriter Are a Dispatch from a Bygone Age in D.C.

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Feb 08, 2017 4:45 PM

J.M. Coetzee Pits Reason and Passion Against Each Other in One Unsexy Dialectical Showdown

Mark O'Connell

Feb 08, 2017 2:43 PM

How “Sensitivity Readers” From Minority Groups Are Changing the Book Publishing Ecosystem

Katy Waldman

Feb 08, 2017 5:55 AM

Kathleen Collins’ Remarkable Stories Feel Like Peeking Through a Keyhole at the Inner Lives of Black Women

Diamond Sharp

Feb 07, 2017 6:49 PM

What’s Missing From Chait’s Book on Obama’s Legacy Is Also Missing From Obama’s Worldview

Jamelle Bouie

Feb 07, 2017 11:23 AM

Go Ahead and Return That Book Late—Libraries Are Doing Away With the Overdue Fine

Ruth Graham

Feb 06, 2017 10:11 AM

The Timing on George Saunders’ First Novel Is Really, Really Bad

Laura Miller

Feb 06, 2017 9:40 AM

Lancaster, Ohio Was the Epitome of the American Dream. Then Big Business Destroyed It.

Laura Miller

Feb 03, 2017 9:00 AM

How the Rise of Islamic Extremism Echoes America’s Own Violent Transition to Modernity

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Jan 25, 2017 9:30 AM