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June 22, 2015
Sam Eifling
Under a Spell
The spine-tingling glee of the Scrabble enthusiast
June 9, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Controversy Over Muhammad Cartoons Is Not About the Prophet Muhammad
June 7, 2015
Breaking the Boundaries Between Fantasy and Literary Fiction
A conversation between literary heavyweights
June 5, 2015
Jeet Heer
Why Are Libertarians Mostly Dudes?
Rand Paul is polling terribly among women. His political philosophy might be to blame.
June 3, 2015
Steven Lubet
Alice Goffman's Denial of Murder Conspiracy Raises Even More Questions
The sociologist wrote about joining a murder plot. Now she insists that it was "not about actual violence."
June 1, 2015
Jason Guriel
What Happens When a Great Editor Writes His First Novel
May 29, 2015
Jeet Heer
Wising Up to the Wise Men of American Foreign Policy
May 28, 2015
Jeet Heer
The New David Foster Wallace Movie Isn’t a Biopic. It’s Another 'Rolling Stone' Writer Flick.
May 28, 2015
Ira Wells
Forgetting Lolita: How Nabokov's Victim Became an American Fantasy
May 27, 2015
Steven Lubet
Did This Acclaimed Sociologist Drive the Getaway Car in a Murder Plot?
The questionable ethics of Alice Goffman's "On the Run"
May 26, 2015
Benjamin Anastas
Teaching the Controversy
James Baldwin and Richard Wright in the Ferguson Era
May 24, 2015
Nick Romeo
The Philosopher Novelist
May 22, 2015
Malcolm Harris
Does Color Even Exist?
What you see is only what you see
May 21, 2015
Jacob Soll
The Culture of Criticism
What do we owe the Enlightenment?
May 19, 2015
Shaj Mathew
Welcome to Literature’s Duchamp Moment
Avant-garde fiction is starting to resemble conceptual art
May 18, 2015
Steve Friess
When "Holocaust" Became "The Holocaust"
An etymological mystery
May 15, 2015
Siddhartha Deb
Those Mythological Men and Their Sacred, Supersonic Flying Temples
What tales of ancient Vedic aircraft tell us about India’s place in the modern world
May 15, 2015
Cara Parks
Instill Life
The dark and light of Sally Mann
May 14, 2015
Jerry A. Coyne
Life Is "Triggering." The Best Literature Should Be, Too.
A few Columbia students want warnings on Ovid. What's next? Here's what Literature Fascism would look like.
May 10, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Risks of Siding With French Secularism
The National Front's defense of 'Charlie Hebdo' should make the mag's progressive American defenders wary

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