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February 11, 2013
Kevin Madigan
Why Priests Have Power
February 11, 2013
Hillary Kelly
A Failure of Imagination
Why Bookish and other recommendation engines fall short
February 11, 2013
Lydia DePillis
Newsomville
What happens when the town hall goes digital?
February 8, 2013
Ruy Teixeira
Baby Talk
Do low fertility rates spell economic collapse?
February 8, 2013
Sam Lipsyte
How to Write About Sex
The awkward art of the smitten word
February 6, 2013
Evgeny Morozov, Steven Johnson
Up for Debate: Can Social Media Solve Real-World Problems?
February 5, 2013
Lizzie Skurnick
Sam Lipsyte's Meta Family Fiction
February 5, 2013
Evgeny Morozov
Why Social Movements Should Ignore Social Media
February 4, 2013
Mark Athitakis
Barnes & Noble: A Tribute
What the reviled chain did for literary culture
February 4, 2013
Michael Lewis
The Trouble with Wall Street
The shocking news that Goldman Sachs is greedy
February 4, 2013
Daniel D'Addario
Edward Muybridge: Grandfather of the GIF
How an eccentric photographer invented modern visual culture
January 31, 2013
Jacob Silverman
The Problem with Tweeting a Revolution
Andy Carvin tweeted the Arab Spring. He still missed something by not being there.
January 30, 2013
Sarah Courteau
George Saunders: Literary Champion of the Little Man
January 29, 2013
Sacha Z. Scoblic
Why Rehab Fails
The dogma of AA has taken over
January 29, 2013
Molly Fischer
Chick Lit Has a New Heroine
The semi-glamorous life of the new media maven
January 25, 2013
Adam Plunkett
Sound Check: W.S. Merwin’s Love of Foreign Language
January 24, 2013
Roger Lowenstein
Fed Head—An Insider’s Take on the Financial Crisis
January 23, 2013
Marc Tracy
Field of Schemes—How Politics Infected Sports
January 22, 2013
Samuel Helfont
After the Spring—Post-Revolution Hezbollah
January 21, 2013
Alice Gregory
Is Friendship Better than Romance?

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