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An Ode to the Sun by Karl Ove Knausgaard

An Ode to the Sun by Karl Ove Knausgaard

"Absolutely Unapproachable and Completely Indifferent to its Creation"

By Karl Ove Knausgaard | August 22, 2017

How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée

How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée

"He Wanted Martha to Remember That She Was Nothing Very Special"

By Frederick Crews | August 22, 2017

Towards a Unifying Identity for the Left: Citizenship

Towards a Unifying Identity for the Left: Citizenship

Mark Lilla Proposes a Way for Democrats to Move Forward

By Mark Lilla | August 22, 2017

Why We Should Pay Attention to Dinesh D’Souza’s Terrible Book About Fascism

Why We Should Pay Attention to Dinesh D’Souza’s Terrible Book About Fascism

On Distortions of History and Providing Cover for Actual Nazis

By Mark Bray | August 21, 2017

The Stories We'll Tell: Getting Ready for a Total Eclipse of the Sun

The Stories We'll Tell: Getting Ready for a Total Eclipse of the Sun

Valerie Geary on the Importance of Looking Skyward

By Valerie Geary | August 21, 2017

Who Should Play the Female Dorian Gray?

Who Should Play the Female Dorian Gray?

And More from the Week in Literary Film and TV News

By Emily Temple | August 18, 2017

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Retracing Willa Cather's Steps in the South of France

By Marcia DeSanctis | August 18, 2017

Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

By Jill Bialosky | August 17, 2017

Searching for Stanley Kunitz's Garden

By Nell Boeschenstein | August 17, 2017

The Long History of White Nationalism in America

The Long History of White Nationalism in America

The US Was a De Facto White-Supremacist Nation for Most of its Existence

By George Hawley | August 16, 2017

How the Silent Book Club Gave Me Back My Reading Life

How the Silent Book Club Gave Me Back My Reading Life

Reading Alone, Together, at a Table of Introverts

By Maggie Downs | August 16, 2017

Fire, Fury, and America's Failure to Learn From the Past

Fire, Fury, and America's Failure to Learn From the Past

David L. Ulin on Revisiting Hiroshima, and the Dark, Empty Rhetoric of the President

By David L. Ulin | August 16, 2017

Another Way New York City is Dying: The Rise of Fauxstalgia

Another Way New York City is Dying: The Rise of Fauxstalgia

Jeremiah Moss on NYC Restaurateurs Rebooting Classic Restaurants

By Jeremiah Moss | August 16, 2017

Playing the

Playing the "Bigly" Game: On Poverty and Shame in America

“It’s Not Whether you Win or Lose, it’s Whether You Win”

By Fiona Helmsley | August 16, 2017

How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

Stephanie Gangi Records Every Moment of Intentional Contact in Seven Days

By Stephanie Gangi | August 15, 2017

Whose Idea of America? Rauschenberg, Whitman, or Trump?

Whose Idea of America? Rauschenberg, Whitman, or Trump?

Geoff Hilsabeck Considers a Country at War, and the Artists Within

By Geoffrey Hilsabeck | August 15, 2017

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