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July 12, 2014
G.W. Bowersock
Remember the Greek Enlightenment?
Neither does Greece, to judge by its government
July 11, 2014
Jonathan Bate
Shakespeare Was an Epicurean
Tracing the Bard’s debt to the French essayist Michel de Montaigne
July 10, 2014
Alice Robb
Grown Women Don't Need a 'Best Friend'
No matter what Amy Poehler tells you
July 9, 2014
Anne Hollander
The Open Marriage of True Minds
The extraordinary life of Simone de Beauvoir
July 8, 2014
Esther Breger
J.K. Rowling’s New 'Harry Potter' Story Is a Marketing Scam
July 7, 2014
Paul Starr
New Technology Doesn't Make Us All Richer
We need policies that realign growth and equality
July 6, 2014
Ingrid Rowland
A Banker, a Scholar, and the Invention of Art History
The story of the Warburg brothers
July 5, 2014
James Loeffler
Wagner's Anti-Semitism Still Matters
It helped define European anti-Semitism, especially when it came to Jewish music
July 5, 2014
Helen Lewis
The Essay That Launched the Term "Mansplaining"
Rebecca Solnit's 'Men Explain Things to Me' explains this international scourge
July 4, 2014
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
The Dangerous Lies We Tell About America’s Founding
Myths may comfort us, but facts are our best weapon against Tea Party perversions
July 4, 2014
Barry Mazor
Revival Revival
Mid-century Blues obsessives are getting a lot of attention lately
July 4, 2014
Simon Heffer
Historians Fought About World War I the Moment It Began. They're Still Fighting.
July 2, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
Chip Kidd Thinks Lena Dunham's Book Cover Could Use an Upgrade
But she's not alone in reviving 70s-style fonts
July 1, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Most Moving, Enlightening Novels About World War I
June 28, 2014
Lynn Hunt
Louis XVI Wasn't Killed by Ideas
This is what happens when you ignore the role of politics in intellectual history
June 27, 2014
Elizabeth Winkler
J.K. Rowling's New Novel Reveals What She Really Thinks of the Publishing Industry
And it isn't pretty
June 25, 2014
Rebecca Traister
The Lonely Life of an Outlaw's Daughter
Making sense of a childhood filled with violence
June 24, 2014
Chloe Schama, Taylor Malmsheimer
Splendor in the Grass
The washed-out farmland look is popular this season
June 22, 2014
Michael Kimmage
How the CIA Stole 'Dr. Zhivago'
The novel stood in subtle opposition to much that Soviet life tried to destroy
June 20, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Stickers Any Loyal Murakami Reader Will Really Want

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