9 books perfectly summed up with lyrics from Taylor Swift's <em>Red</em>.

9 books perfectly summed up with lyrics from Taylor Swift's Red.

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Reddit thinks Thomas Pynchon might be secretly ghost-tweeting for Paul Thomas Anderson.

Reddit thinks Thomas Pynchon might be secretly ghost-tweeting for Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

"New scenes unspooled easily once I’d stopped thinking about them."

By Kyle Lucia Wu | November 12, 2021

<em>The Dawn of Everything</em> Is Not a Book About the Origins of Inequality

The Dawn of Everything Is Not a Book About the Origins of Inequality

Or, Why Rousseau and Hobbes Can Suck It

By David Graeber and David Wengrow | November 12, 2021

The White Women at the Dark Heart of Trumpism

The White Women at the Dark Heart of Trumpism

Seyward Darby on the Quiet Army of the Far Right

By Seyward Darby | November 12, 2021

James Ivory on the Long, Rocky Road to His Collaboration with Vanessa Redgrave

James Ivory on the Long, Rocky Road to His Collaboration with Vanessa Redgrave

The Story of The Bostonians Involves Palestinian Activism, Glenn Close, and a Dismaying Dinner Party

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Lenny Abrahamson on Adapting Sally Rooney’s <em>Normal People</em> for TV

Lenny Abrahamson on Adapting Sally Rooney’s Normal People for TV

“The process of bringing the novel to screen was unusually swift and satisfying.”

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Bob Eckstein Illustrates New and Renovated Bookstores and Libraries from Around the Country

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How Does Britain Maintain Relevance in a Changing World?

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How <em>Homo erectus</em> Was, and Was Not, Like Modern-Day Humans

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Bob Spitz on the Notorious History of Led Zeppelin

Bob Spitz on the Notorious History of Led Zeppelin

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Loose Lips and Sunken Ships: How Family Secrets Can Protect or Destroy

Loose Lips and Sunken Ships: How Family Secrets Can Protect or Destroy

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Tom Clavin on the Imprisoned Airmen of Buchenwald

Tom Clavin on the Imprisoned Airmen of Buchenwald

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