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August 15, 2014
Jonathan Glancey
Erotic Architecture: the Sexual History of Great Buildings
August 15, 2014
Lisa Appignanesi
Can Science Offer New Answers to Mental Illness?
August 9, 2014
Adam Kirsch
One of Liberalism's Greatest Defenders Doesn't Deserve His Obscurity
The pathos of Stefan Zweig and his overdue revival
August 8, 2014
Rowan Williams
Dylan Thomas Is The Quintessential Poet for Adolescence
But that's not all he was
August 6, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
The Japanese Literature Trend That's Half Cupcake, Half Decapitation
August 4, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
Knopf Book Designer Hates the Classic 'Great Gatsby' Cover
In an interview, Peter Mendulsund explains why some covers work and others fail
August 4, 2014
Anne Applebaum
Hillary Clinton's Crystal Ball
How "Hard Choices" predicts her presidential campaign
August 2, 2014
Paul Berman
The Rise and Fall of a Radical Journalist
History handed Alexander Cockburn a great opportunity, but he blew it
August 2, 2014
Juliet Bellow
The Man Who Corporatized Our National Museums
How J. Carter Brown transformed the American art world
August 1, 2014
Martha Stout
Is Modern Culture Making Us Crazier?
The science behind America's deepening disturbance
July 31, 2014
Jonathan Israel, Lynn Hunt
Was Louis XVI Overthrown by Ideas?
July 31, 2014
Michael Kimmage
How Ronald Reagan Rode America's Delusions to the White House
Reviewing Rick Perlstein's 'The Invisible Bridge'
July 30, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Most Iconic, Important Penguin Paperback Covers of All Time
July 30, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Ira Glass Is a Philistine for Saying Shakespeare Sucks, But He's in Good Company
Why writers have spent centuries attacking the Bard
July 28, 2014
Blaine Greteman
Can World of Warcraft Save Higher Education?
The latest ed trend seems like something you might have done in middle school
July 28, 2014
Uzodinma Iweala
A Book By Jimmy Carter Led Me to Work for Richard Branson
'Talking Peace' provided a perspective on leadership as a combination of stubbornness, a moral compass, and an appetite for risk
July 27, 2014
Franklin Foer
A Newly Rediscovered Novel Is the 'Catch-22' of World War I
July 23, 2014
Tom Bissell
You Are Now Entering the Demented Kingdom of William T. Vollmann
Home to goddesses, dreams, and a dangerously uncorrupted literary mind
July 21, 2014
Perri Klass
'Harriet the Spy' Predicted Our Surveillance State
A cold war children's book is surprisingly prescient
July 20, 2014
David Hajdu
Why Are There So Many Orphans in the Comics?
Roz Chast's take on child/parent relationships and aging

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