Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Emily Hodgson Anderson on Jane and Jane and Jane

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 18, 2020

In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

In Those Years She Was Feral: Midcentury Life in the Soviet Union

Alex Halberstadt on the Life and Times of His Grandmother Tamara

By Alex Halberstadt | March 18, 2020

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

"I regard such things as premature impertinences."

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How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

Andrew Belonsky on the Moravian Book Shop in Pennsylvania

By Andrew Belonsky | March 16, 2020

Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination

Sugar and Sex in the American Imagination

Monique Truong on Calling a Woman “Sweet”

By Monique Truong | March 16, 2020

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's <em>The Plague</em>

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's The Plague

Liesl Schillinger on Catastrophe, Contagion, and the Human Condition

By Liesl Schillinger | March 13, 2020

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The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

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Nathan Rabb on What He Learned From His Father's Bookshelf

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How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

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Will Storr on the Neuroscience Behind the World We See

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On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

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Gerald Posner on Cicely Saunders, the UK Nurse-Turned-Physician

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How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon 'Free Lunch.'

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Ben Katchor's Brief History of the Dairy Restaurant

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Why Does This Portuguese City Glorify the Author Who<br> Hated It?

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José Maria de Eça de Queirós Detested Life in Leiria

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Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

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David Nott on Traveling to Aleppo to Save Lives

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