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April 23, 2021
Zachary Siegel
What Did the Sacklers Know?
Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book provides the fullest accounting so far of Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis.
April 20, 2021
Chris Lehmann
The Chilling Persistence of Eugenics
Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today.
April 19, 2021
Colin Asher
When Richard Wright Broke With the Communists
His posthumously released novel, “The Man Who Lived Underground,” was written during a crisis of political faith.
April 16, 2021
Andre Pagliarini
The Book That Stopped an Outbreak of Nuclear War
A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.
April 14, 2021
Magazine
Evan Kindley
How Americans Lost Their Fervor for Freedom
Louis Menand’s new book traces the decline of a defining ideal.
April 13, 2021
Udi Greenberg
The Lost Worlds of Edward Said
Amid the waning of the humanities, Said turned out to be one of the last literary scholars with a public presence.
April 12, 2021
Magazine
Rumaan Alam
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Deceptively Simple Story of AI
Why does “Klara and the Sun” serve up its big questions so explicitly?
April 9, 2021
Jo Livingstone
There’s More to Hunter Biden Than a Laptop
This portrait of the privileged scion as a crack addict helps explain his father’s odd appeal.
April 7, 2021
Jeremy Lybarger
The Turbulent Life of Francis Bacon
Bacon’s contradictions make him the rare artist who warrants an infatuated 900-page biography.
April 6, 2021
Magazine
Samanth Subramanian
The Mysteries of Stephen Hawking’s Universe
Why did “A Brief History of Time” make its author the most famous scientist in the world?
April 6, 2021
Jo Livingstone
Last Judgment
On the role of criticism in the end times
April 2, 2021
Magazine
Sarah Leonard
How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America
The immense power of Jeff Bezos’s empire reveals a country that has been falling apart for quite some time.
April 1, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Would Anyone Pay Andrew Cuomo $4 Million for a Book?
Books by politicians sell badly and are quickly forgotten, yet the publishing industry spends shovelfuls of cash on them.
March 31, 2021
Scott W. Stern
A Rust Belt City’s New Working Class
Heavy industry once drove Pittsburgh’s economy. Now health care does—but without the same hard-won benefits.
March 30, 2021
Jo Livingstone
Sharon Stone and the Fantasy of Female Domination
At the peak of her fame, she exuded total control on screen. According to her new memoir, a different story played out behind the scenes.
March 26, 2021
Jake Bittle
The Nail-Biting Story of Obamacare
Jonathan Cohn’s new book shows how narrowly health care reform passed—and how far we are from universal coverage.
March 25, 2021
Magazine
Emily Bernard
Audre Lorde Broke the Silence
In her poems and “The Cancer Journals,” Lorde fought to name her experience.
March 24, 2021
Magazine
Daniel Immerwahr
Paleo Con
How thought leaders resurrected the myth of a carefree prehistoric lifestyle
March 24, 2021
Philippa Snow
Love and Humiliation Are Inseparable in
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan’s novel is a compulsive story of desire, subservience, and self-annihiliation.
March 22, 2021
Laura Marsh
Philip Roth’s Revenge Fantasy
The novelist wanted his biography to settle scores. It has badly backfired.
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