The Complicated Afterlives of <br>Roberto Bolaño

The Complicated Afterlives of
Roberto Bolaño

Twenty Years After His Death, Aaron Shulman Unpacks the Legacy of the Chilean Poet and Novelist

By Aaron Shulman | July 17, 2023

The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie

The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie

Before Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the World Nearly Got Ayn Rand’s ”Tribute to Free Enterprise”

By Greg Mitchell | July 17, 2023

The Old Becomes the New: Lawrence Sutin on the Art of Transforming Books

The Old Becomes the New: Lawrence Sutin on the Art of Transforming Books

“The freedom of erasure is its greatest allure.”

By Lawrence Sutin | July 17, 2023

David Lipsky on the Hucksters, Zealots, and Crackpots Behind Climate Denial

David Lipsky on the Hucksters, Zealots, and Crackpots Behind Climate Denial

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 17, 2023

Maggie O’Farrell on Childhood, Art, Money, and Marriage in 16th-Century Florence

Maggie O’Farrell on Childhood, Art, Money, and Marriage in 16th-Century Florence

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 17, 2023

All Publicity is Good Publicity: How Simple Familiarity Influences Our Decisions

All Publicity is Good Publicity: How Simple Familiarity Influences Our Decisions

Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris on the Power of the Known Quantity

By Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris | July 17, 2023

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From One Into Many: On the Science of Starling Murmurations

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On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

Steve Edwards Wonders If It’s Possible to Translate One Generation’s Trauma to the Next

By Steve Edwards | July 14, 2023

Can Writers Have Fun? <em>Afire</em> is a Character Study of a Self-Absorbed Novelist

Can Writers Have Fun? Afire is a Character Study of a Self-Absorbed Novelist

Elissa Suh on Christian Petzold’s New Comedy of Manners

By Elissa Suh | July 14, 2023

How Single-Family Zoning Laws Reinforce Existing Race and Class Divisions

How Single-Family Zoning Laws Reinforce Existing Race and Class Divisions

Richard D. Kahlenberg on the Decades-Long Fight for Affordable and Equitable Housing

By Richard D. Kahlenberg | July 14, 2023

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where <em>Casablanca</em> Ends

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where Casablanca Ends

Tabea Alexa Linhard Explains Why Refugee History is Everyone’s History

By Tabea Alexa Linhard | July 14, 2023

Reconstructing Our Attention in the Era of Infinite Digital Rabbit Holes

Reconstructing Our Attention in the Era of Infinite Digital Rabbit Holes

Tobias Rose-Stockwell on the Devices that Hold Our Most Scarce Resource Hostage

By Tobias Rose-Stockwell | July 14, 2023

Laura Trethewey on the Race to Map the Oceans

Laura Trethewey on the Race to Map the Oceans

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 14, 2023

C.W. Goodyear on James Garfield, Most Pathologically Reasonable of American Presidents

C.W. Goodyear on James Garfield, Most Pathologically Reasonable of American Presidents

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