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Illustration of a roulette wheel and casino patrons looming over one of their hands holding the Earth, symbolizing a dice and gamblings growing influence spreading from sports into the broader world and news media.

Jacob Bacharach

How Gambling Ate the World

In less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news.

Author Toni Morrison in New York City in 1979

In Praise of Toni Morrison’s Difficulty

Namwali Serpell’s new book embraces the uneasy, unexpected, and defiant elements of her life and work.

Love Story Captures the Strangeness of Being a Kennedy

A collage of a black and white photo of John F. Kennedy surrounding a central color TV episodic image of Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr. in "Love Story." in the new FX tv show portraying Carolyn Bessette and John F. Kennedy Jr. dancin

Love Story Captures the Strangeness of Being a Kennedy

Books & the Arts

Photo illustration of Vigdis Hjorth in a collage layered with excerpts from A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Vigdis Hjorth Keeps Going Back

Her novel Repetition is an attempt to live with the weight of the past.

An illustration of Margaret Caroline Anderson the founder of The Little Review.

Stephanie Gorton

The Little Magazine That Defied American Censorship

Margaret Anderson’s Little Review fought to bring the great works of modernist literature to the United States.