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

Katy Waldman

Feb 24, 2017 1:40 PM

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

Feb 17, 2017 1:12 PM

A Conversation With Daphne Merkin About Grappling With Severe Depression

Isaac Chotiner

Feb 17, 2017 11:54 AM

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

Ismail Muhammad

Feb 15, 2017 4:49 PM

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

Max Holleran

Feb 12, 2017 8:04 PM

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

Isaac Butler

Feb 10, 2017 4:20 PM

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

Jonathan L. Fischer

Feb 09, 2017 10:48 AM

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

Laura Miller

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

Laura Miller

Jan 25, 2017 9:30 AM

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