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October 12, 2015
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2015 Man Booker Prize?
The UK's most prestigious literary prize takes on the world
October 12, 2015
Saul Austerlitz
Hollywood’s Tortured Tech Gurus
“Steve Jobs” is the latest film to explore the soul of an alluring, disturbing tech CEO
October 12, 2015
Molly McManus
Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”
October 12, 2015
Paul Grimstad
Elvis Costello: Rock Music’s Biggest Fan
His new memoir tells of songwriting and encounters with the famous
October 12, 2015
Robert Fernandez
El Greco
October 12, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
White Male Writers: No Longer the Default, and Not Terribly Interesting
October 12, 2015
Arielle Milkman
The Housing Crisis Amid Denver’s Cannabis Boom
October 12, 2015
Evan Kindley
Paul Thomas Anderson Has Made His Version of ‘The Last Waltz'
'Junun' shows the making of Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur's new album
October 12, 2015
Vivian Gornick
Why I Live Where I Live
Some writers need to go abroad to see home clearly, but New York City has all I need.
October 9, 2015
Max Rivlin-Nadler
Where Fantasy Sports Meets Stock Market Scams
Daily fantasy games are wildly popular and completely infuriating
October 9, 2015
Sophie Pinkham
Svetlana Alexievich, The Dostoevsky of Nonfiction
The Nobel Prizewinner’s compassionate oral histories resist Cold War narratives
October 9, 2015
Molly Osberg
Romance in the California Drought
Claire Vaye Watkins’s characters shack up in the rubble of the apocalypse
October 9, 2015
David Jaher
Harry Houdini in Love
Becoming Mrs. Houdini meant learning to speak to the dead
October 9, 2015
Jacob Silverman
“Steve Jobs” Is a Magnificent Piece of Consumerist Propaganda
The Apple chairman as corporate tyrant and consumer saint
October 9, 2015
Jamil Smith
A Black President Is Not a Magical Negro
Rupert Murdoch's tweets about Ben Carson signified a dangerous stereotype
October 9, 2015
Jo Livingstone
Speaking in Tongues
From Elvish to Dothraki, the rise of invented languages
October 8, 2015
Jacqui Shine
The Long, Strange History of ABC Family
A channel changes its name, but can’t get rid of its religious roots
October 8, 2015
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
The Mushroom That Explains the World
An anthropologist tries to understand capitalism by studying a Japanese delicacy
October 8, 2015
Alex Shephard
Belarusian Author Svetlana Alexievich Wins 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature
October 8, 2015
Sheila Bapat
How to Create a Feminist Utopia: Redefine the Family!

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