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Smarter Than You Think? On the Literary Side of <em>Friends</em>

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As Much Power As the President: How Billionaires Became More Influential than World Leaders

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Rob Larson on Income Inequality, Blurring Class Distinctions, and How Money Became Synonymous with Power

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We Live in Uncertain Times... But Haven’t We Always?

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Here are the finalists for the 2024 Kirkus Prize.

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The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

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Love in the Time of Hillbilly Elegy: On JD Vance’s Appalachian Grift

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How Foreign Tyrants Contract American Lobbyists to Whitewash Their Crimes

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