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June 20, 2014
Shaj Mathew
Why Did Borges Hate Soccer?
Mass culture was anathema to the Argentine writer
June 17, 2014
Geoff Dyer
How to Pass Time on an Aircraft Carrier
Find the places that resemble bars, play dominoes, imagine a fated connection
June 16, 2014
Jeffrey Schnapp, et al.
Authors of 'Digital_Humanities': Printed Books Are Vital
June 15, 2014
Michael Ignatieff
Stories of Life after the Shoah
Surviving after World War II—for victims and victors
June 14, 2014
Adam Plunkett
Robert Frost Was Neither Light Nor Dark
He's worth reading because we're both
June 13, 2014
Jang Jin-Sung
I Was Kim Jong-il's Poet Laureate
Writing helped me join North Korea's inner circle—until I committed treason.
June 12, 2014
Ilan Stavans
Why Has Literature Ignored Soccer?
June 11, 2014
Rebecca Traister
Hillary Clinton's Memoir Isn't Terrible at All. It's Fun and Even a Little Weird.
June 10, 2014
Adam Kirsch
A British TV Celebrity Called for a "Poetry Inquisition." He's Right.
How to make poetry relevant again
June 10, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Saul Bellow's Ferocious Beliefs
Saul's particular combination of intellectuality and vitality was not paradoxical, it was category-shattering.
June 9, 2014
Hillary Kelly
This Is What Dickensian London Really Looked Like
Images of the squalor and sadness of Victorian life
June 9, 2014
Jeet Heer
A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness
Robert A. Heinlein became increasingly right wing, and his novels suffered for it
June 9, 2014
Jessica Grose
The Transgender Rights Movement Needs a Goofy, Basic Foundational Text
It worked for feminism
June 9, 2014
James Pulizzi
In the Near Future, Only Very Wealthy Colleges Will Have English Departments
Adapt (not publish) or perish
June 8, 2014
Jenna Weissman Joselit
'Fiddler on the Roof' Distorted Sholem Aleichem
But Sholem Aleichem distorted shtetl life to begin with
June 8, 2014
Maya Jasanoff
Gandhi Was a Crank Before He Was a Saint
His morally nuanced early years in South Africa
June 6, 2014
Rachel Carter
I Write Young Adult Novels, and I Refuse to Apologize for It
June 5, 2014
Hillary Kelly
In Praise of Reading Whatever the Hell You Want
Don't let Slate make you feel ashamed for reading books that you love
June 5, 2014
Alice Robb
"How Au Courant I Am, Eating This Pig Face"
Why some foods become trendy, and others never take off
June 5, 2014
Joanna Rakoff
The Day I Met J.D. Salinger

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