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September 14, 2015
Gal Beckerman
Could Climate Change Cause Another Holocaust?
Timothy Snyder's new book identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares
September 14, 2015
Jeet Heer
Professor Bellow
The influence of the academy made Saul Bellow’s fiction insufferable.
September 12, 2015
Alex Shephard
The Hunt for a Possible Pynchon Novel Leads to a Name
Literary speculation begun by Harper’s Magazine is traced to an author in Hawaii—A.J. Perry
September 11, 2015
Matthew Pratt Guterl
'Jack Reacher' Embodies the American View of Justice: White, Male, and Lawless
September 11, 2015
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Falling Asleep in the Afterlife
Why are books about visiting heaven so boring—and popular?
September 11, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Travel Writing Doesn’t Need Any More Voices Like Paul Theroux's
September 10, 2015
Elaine Teng
When Family Is the Thing You Can't Escape
September 9, 2015
Ethan Gates
Once A Joke Goes Viral, Who Cares Where It Came From?
September 9, 2015
Sasha Abramsky
My Grandfather Built a House of 20,000 Books From the Ashes of War
September 9, 2015
Michelle Dean
Drunk Confessions
Women and the clichés of the literary drunkard.
September 8, 2015
Bijan Stephen
Life as Player One
Michael Clune's new book shows the spiritual side of gaming
September 8, 2015
Laura Miller
Lust for Learning
Is erotic longing between professors and students unavoidable?
September 3, 2015
Siddhartha Deb
Where the Dead Refuse to Vanish
Eka Kurniawan’s fiction reckons with Indonesia’s bloody inheritance
September 2, 2015
Jenny Hendrix
Salman Rushdie's Baffling Arabian Nights
Rushdie’s new novel aims to skewer superstition and belief—but gets lost in its own games
September 2, 2015
Steven Cohen
The People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger—Before His Death
August 31, 2015
John Biguenet
Silent Reading Doesn't Exist
In the wake of disaster, a writer listens to the voice in his head
August 27, 2015
James McAuley
The Mystery of Patrick Modiano
August 25, 2015
Laura Reston
Amy Klobuchar Wrote the “Lean In” of Political Memoirs
August 25, 2015
Natasha Lewis
This Surreal Novel Captures the Weirdness of Modern Relationships
August 21, 2015
Rachel Cusk
Is Today’s Literary Culture Macho Enough for Kingsley Amis?

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