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December 10, 2015
Laura Marsh
Emily Dickinson, born on this day in 1830, left a beautiful trove of handwritten poems.
December 10, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Modi and Hollande’s collaborative book is the perfect Christmas gift for the climate-conscious transcendentalist in your life.
December 10, 2015
Brad Leithauser
Living on a Literary Calendar
Immerse yourself in a huge novel and you will start to find its timeline competing with the plot of your daily life.
December 9, 2015
James McAuley
The Tale of the Talking Painting
Hannah Rothschild’s new novel, told from the point of view of a Watteau painting, skewers the art world.
December 8, 2015
Laura Marsh
Forget Moby-Dick marathons, Russia is reading War and Peace.
December 8, 2015
Laura Marsh
The Year in Literary Backlash
A guide to books the critics loved and hated in equal measure.
December 8, 2015
Marian Bull
Mastering the Art of Stoned Cooking
A new cookbook aims to do for weed what Julia Child did for French cuisine.
December 8, 2015
Sarah Weinman
The Case of the Disappearing Black Detective Novel
Hughes Allison was a black mystery writer with a promising future. What went wrong?
December 7, 2015
Laura Marsh
Another “great books” poll boringly confirms the dominance of Middlemarch.
December 7, 2015
Sam Sacks
Professional Fictions
Should writing be an art or a career?
December 4, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Why Hitler was a big fan of porcelain.
December 4, 2015
Esther Breger
Barnes & Noble wants to be a “lifestyle brand,” not a bookstore.
December 3, 2015
Mollie Gregory
Put The Girl in Danger!
The radical courage of silent movie stuntwomen.
December 3, 2015
Alex Shephard
The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year list contains books by two dead people, four Americans, and one white man (probably).
December 2, 2015
Alex Traub
The Quest to Run a Marathon in Under Two Hours
Can record-breaking race times ever represent the glory of sports?
December 1, 2015
James McAuley
The Delicate Art of Memory
Edmund de Waal’s new book is an odyssey into an obsession with porcelain.
November 30, 2015
Jamil Smith
The Necessity of Football
America’s game is a fun-house mirror for our national character.
November 30, 2015
Judith Lichtenberg
Peter Singer’s Extremely Altruistic Heirs
Forty years after it was written, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” has spawned a radical new movement.
November 26, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
A Thanksgiving reading list about food.
November 25, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Thanksgiving Food Is Bad
An interview with author Matthew Gavin Frank on the drawbacks of everyone's favorite food-centered holiday.

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