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June 4, 2014
Kelsey Osgood
Why We Don’t Like Stories in Which the Mentally Ill Heroine Recovers
The surprisingly stable afterlife of the author of 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'
June 3, 2014
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
History Turned the Romanov Sisters Into a Fairy Tale. Here's What They Were Really Like.
June 2, 2014
Alice Robb
The Three Most Important Traits of People Who Make the World Work
"Invisibles" perform key tasks without seeking credit. And they're in high demand.
June 1, 2014
David A. Bell
When French Irrationality Was Deadly
The writers who fell in love with fascism
May 29, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Winner in the Kinsley-Greenwald Spat: The New York Times Book Review
Opinion journalism—which is what a book review is—can not be subject to some kind of impartial standard of correctness.
May 28, 2014
John McWhorter
Saint Maya
Angelou's flawed books helped relieve black writers of the burden of representing their race
May 27, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Jeb Bush Claims He's More Bookish Than His Brother. Karl Rove Begs To Differ.
May 27, 2014
Sarah Weinman
Novels About Famous Writers' Wives Are a Cheap Trick
Leave Zelda, Hadley, and the rest out of it
May 25, 2014
Richard A. Posner
We Need a Strong Prison System
But we need to imprison people for fewer crimes and for less time
May 22, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The 2014 Summer Reading Guide
9 smart, entertaining new books to get you through the summer
May 20, 2014
William Giraldi
Finally, an Academic Text Devoted to '50 Shades of Grey'
When a very smart scholar takes on a very dumb book
May 19, 2014
Cass R. Sunstein
The Man Who Made Libertarians Wrong About the Constitution
How Richard Epstein's highly influential, highly politicized scholarship cemented Tea Party dogma
May 18, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Yet Another Writer Has Admitted Faking Her Holocaust Memoir
The long, strange history of made-up Shoah stories
May 14, 2014
Sarah Courteau
Joshua Ferris's New Novel Is as Boring as it Sounds
The author of 'Then We Came to the End' fails to make the NYC Everyman interesting
May 13, 2014
William Giraldi
Grasping for Words, Grappling with the Past
The long journey of Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld
May 12, 2014
Cara Parks
Books of Forgetting
Why we can't stop writing about what we can't remember
May 10, 2014
David Baddiel, Jeffrey Meyers
John Updike: Tedious Suburbanite, Literary Great
An argument between David Baddiel and Jeffrey Meyers
May 10, 2014
Steven Hahn
The Emancipationist Century
David Brion Davis's trilogy was fifty years in the making, and the final volume was worth the wait
May 9, 2014
Molly Antopol
Politics Is Made Personal in Michael Cunningham's New Novel
May 8, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Humane and Heartbreaking Letters from the Last Five Centuries

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