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April 17, 2014
Aneesh Chopra
How GPS Is Being Used to Fight the Asthma Epidemic
April 16, 2014
Stuart Taylor Jr.
The Many Ways in Which The New Book About the Duke Lacrosse Case is Wrong
April 12, 2014
Cynthia Ozick
How Kafka Actually Lived
He did not transcend his Jewishness, no matter what Updike claimed
April 11, 2014
Evan Hughes
The Norwegian Government Keeps Book Publishers Alive
And other reasons it's the best place in the world to be a writer
April 10, 2014
Jenna Weissman Joselit
Religion Only Works When It Appeals to the Senses
April 8, 2014
Evan Hughes
Karl Ove Knausgaard Became a Literary Sensation by Exposing His Every Secret
Readers love him for it. He hates himself.
April 7, 2014
Chloe Schama
Lydia Davis Is the Perfect Writer for the Twitter Era
April 7, 2014
Alice Gregory
Reviewing the Unreviewable
How to assess the promising, posthumous work of a 22-year-old
April 6, 2014
Robert Alter
Paul de Man Was a Total Fraud
The literary-critical giant lied about every part of his life
April 6, 2014
Adam Thirlwell
The Greatest Ex-Nazi Writer
Never heard of Gottfried Benn? It's because of his politics
March 28, 2014
Leo Robson
Reading Won't Make You a Better Person
Enough with the sanctimonious blather!
March 27, 2014
Malcolm Cowley
Fitzgerald's Ideas Were Solid. His Books Were a Little More Convoluted.
March 26, 2014
William Deresiewicz
The Miseducation of the Tiger Mom
An odd new book by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld gives ambition a bad name
March 25, 2014
Jiayang Fan
China's Dan Brown is a Subtle Subversive
March 23, 2014
Peter E. Gordon
The Intellectual and Other Wanderings of Walter Benjamin
March 23, 2014
Matthew Wolfson
"Flyover Country" Is an Insult to Midwesterners Like Me. So Is "Heartland" Sentimentality.
March 22, 2014
John Gray
Was Nietzsche Right About Religion?
The ghost at the atheist feast
March 22, 2014
Helen Vendler
Inside Emily Dickinson's Revealing Lost Papers
March 21, 2014
Jason Zengerle
The Failure of Kentucky Coach John Calipari's "Players First" Philosophy
March 21, 2014
Hayley Campbell
Anne Rice Issues a Petition to Get People to Be Nicer in Amazon Reviews

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