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A Festival of Destruction in One of the Oldest Cities in the World

Michael Cunningham Travels to the Southern Italian City of Matera

November 21, 2019

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The 20 Best Novels of the Decade

Yes, here it is.

November 19, 2019

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On Jane Austen, Elizabeth Warren, and the Legacy of the Stoic Woman

Rachel Vorona Cote Considers the Miss Dashwoods

November 18, 2019

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Look, Latin Is Not Useless, Neither
Is It Dead

Nicola Gardini Refutes the Biases Towards the So-Called Dead Language

November 18, 2019

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Remembering the Moments Before the Charlie Hebdo Attack

Survivor Philippe Lançon on Memory and Fate in the Wake of Violence

November 14, 2019

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A Day in the Life of a Food Critic:
Chef Tantrums Included

Adam Platt on the Time Mario Batali Called Him “a Miserable Fuck”

November 13, 2019

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On the Build-Up to the Legendary Baldwin-Buckley Debates

Bad Reviews, Disastrous Elections, and the Intellectual State of Play in 1964 New York

November 12, 2019

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Azar Nafisi on Finding Herself in the Writing of Vladimir Nabokov

How a Writer is Shaped By Perpetual Exile

November 11, 2019

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On the Difficulty of Convincing Samuel Beckett of Just About Anything

Deirdre Bair, Biographer of Record, Recalls Their First Meeting

November 11, 2019

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The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III

November 8, 2019

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How Do We Bring More Urgency to the Climate Crisis? Emma Sloley and Emily Raboteau in Conversation

Rethinking Ways of Describing Climate Change As It Is Lived

November 7, 2019

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Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime?

Rebecca Solnit on the Self-Importance (and Self-Pity!) of the Very Rich

November 6, 2019

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On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

What Does the “Iceberg Theory” Look Like Applied to Architecture?

November 6, 2019

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The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction
of the Decade

In which we cheated.

November 5, 2019

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Inside France's Fall Publishing Frenzy, aka 'Oscar Season For Books'

Clémentine Goldszal on La Rentrée Littéraire

November 4, 2019

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What Makes Good Comfort Food? Writers in Conversation

With Mira Jacob, Maile Meloy, Emily Raboteau, and Diana Abu-Jaber

November 1, 2019

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André Aciman Finds His Way Back to His Famous Lovers

Catching Up Over Coffee with the Author of Call Me By Your Name

November 1, 2019

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American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

On the 19th-Century Invention of the Madwoman

October 31, 2019

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The 10 Best Essay Collections of the Decade

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

October 29, 2019

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Cultural Criticism

Is the Debutante One of the Most Misunderstood Characters in Literature?

Maitreyi Anantharaman on What Scholars Have Missed
in Edith Wharton, Anne Bronte, and More

By Maitreyi Anantharaman November 21, 2019

On the Great Secret-Keepers
of History

Do Archivists Have Political Motivations Too?

By Courtney Taylor November 21, 2019

European History

Retracing the Historical (and Literal) Path of Napoleon's Retreat from Russia

Sylvain Tesson Attempts to Journey Back to 1812

By Sylvain Tesson November 21, 2019

The Maris Review

Deborah Levy on the Duplicity of Sentences

The Author of The Man Who Saw Everything on The Maris Review

By The Maris Review November 21, 2019

When the Baby Penguins Come
Into the World

Lindsay McCrae on Filming New Life in Antarctica

By Lindsay McCrae November 21, 2019

Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying

Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh?

By Michael Schmidt November 21, 2019

American History

Piecing Together the Lives
of Enslaved Americans

By Rachel May November 21, 2019

An Ode to Women Who Walk,
From Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig

From Lizzy Stewart's Graphic Meditation on Contemporary Life

An Ode to Women Who Walk, <br>From Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig

By Lizzy Stewart November 21, 2019

just the right book

How Do We Ultimately Escape Our Family Secrets?

By Just the Right Book November 21, 2019

LIC Reading Series

LIC Reading Series Podcast: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hannah Lillith Assadi, and Keith Gessen Panel Discussion

By LIC Reading Series November 21, 2019

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

November 21, 2019 By Book Marks

Point/Counterpoint:
Stephen King's The Institute

November 21, 2019 By Book Marks

The 10 Best True Crime Books of the Last Decade

November 21, 2019 By CrimeReads

How a Gang of Heavy Metal Stoners Went to 1980s L.A. and Became the Notorious MS-13

November 21, 2019 By Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez

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