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Thomas McGuane is Writing the Most Vital Literature of the Trump Era

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Hernan Diaz's New Novel Isn’t a Dystopia—Trust Him

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The Real Story of the So-Called “Witches” of England

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A Prophetic Classic About the Dangers of Tech is Back in Print

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Why We are Suing the City of Los Angeles to Save Libraries

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The Real Technofascists of Silicon Valley: Why Big Tech Oligarchs Hate Democracy

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A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn

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On the Secret Three-Man Mission Deep in Nazi Europe That Won WWII

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Happy International Translation Day!

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The “Mutually Confounding” Relationship Between Librarian and Researcher

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William T. Vollmann on Trying to Excavate American Foreign Policy From the Cold War to the War on Terror

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A Journey to Antarctica in Photos: Remembering Ernest Shackleton’s Grand Expedition

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The Best Debut Novels of the Month: September 2026

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I’m Having a Hard Time Saying No: How Can I Be More of a Literary Asshole?

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The Artist’s Room Is Not a Neutral Space

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9 to 5: Inside The Movement That Inspired the Iconic Film

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How Weimar Germany’s Proportional Democracy Put Hitler in Power

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The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War

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Meet Hyman Judah Schachtel, the Anti-Zionist Rabbi of Houston

By Benjamin Moser

On Finding the Beauty in a Block of Stone

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