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September 24, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
The New Fairy Tale Is Trying to Escape Its Past
September 23, 2014
Elizabeth Winkler
Peter Thiel Is a Closet Humanist
September 21, 2014
Dan Jurafsky
Why Drugs Are a Metaphor for Some Foods, and Sex Is a Metaphor for Others
Exploring the language of Yelp reviews
September 21, 2014
Cass R. Sunstein
What If Counterfactuals Never Existed?
Studying history with hypotheticals
September 19, 2014
David Marquand
We Shouldn't Forget Liberalism's Religious Roots
September 19, 2014
Sasha Senderovich
Finally, a Russian Jewish Novel Breaks Out of the Autobiographical Rut
September 16, 2014
The New Republic Staff
The New Republic Releases "Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America"
September 14, 2014
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Was the Spiritual Father of the GOP Actually a Democrat?
September 11, 2014
Esther Breger
These Books Won't Change Your Life: A Guide to Literary Self-Help
September 11, 2014
Trevor Quirk
I Thought I Hated the New Atheists. Then I Read Sam Harris's New Book.
The new atheist trounce: Science, spirituality, and common sense bump heads
September 10, 2014
Justin Driver
How Scalia's Beliefs Completely Changed the Supreme Court
And therefore, the country
September 9, 2014
William Deresiewicz
'A Great Symphony of American Junk'
What David Foster Wallace misunderstood about John Updike
September 7, 2014
Sean Wilentz
Why Has the American Literary Canon Admitted So Few Historians?
Two mid-century scholars are finally getting their due
September 3, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Metaphysical Case for Abolishing Political Parties
Do political parties corrupt the souls of their members?
August 30, 2014
Leo Robson
How Scientists Captured the Brains of Amis and McEwan
August 29, 2014
Jason Guriel
Miss de Beauvoir, Meet 'Alien v. Predator'
The pastiche poetry of Michael Robbins
August 27, 2014
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
I Hated English Class, Until We Read Nabokov
The novelist taught me how to leave room for magic
August 26, 2014
Piper Kerman
The Real-Life Piper from "Orange Is the New Black" Talks Courtroom Fashion
August 26, 2014
Juliet Lapidos
When Are Metafictional Games a Mask For Laziness?
The complex style of Ben Lerner
August 16, 2014
Frederick Deknatel
How One Woman's Luxury Damascus Villa Became a Refugee Camp
The war in Syria seeps into the Old City

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