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December 10, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
It might be constitutional for a robot to run for president. What a relief.
December 10, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them.
There’s no long any room in the gun-control debate for nuance. Eliminate guns, and we’ll eliminate the carnage.
December 10, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Year in Superheroes
They dominated film, television, and literature—and there's no end to the hold they have on the entertainment industry.
December 10, 2015
Esther Breger
Warner Brothers, Disney, and The Weinstein Co. went two years without hiring a female director.
December 10, 2015
Brad Leithauser
Living on a Literary Calendar
Immerse yourself in a huge novel and you will start to find its timeline competing with the plot of your daily life.
December 9, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
An American will be playing Champions League soccer today.
December 9, 2015
Esther Breger
Abigail Breslin will carry a watermelon in ABC’s Dirty Dancing remake.
December 9, 2015
James McAuley
The Tale of the Talking Painting
Hannah Rothschild’s new novel, told from the point of view of a Watteau painting, skewers the art world.
December 9, 2015
Jeet Heer
Move over Ta-Nehisi Coates, Margaret Atwood has entered the room.
December 8, 2015
Laura Marsh
Forget Moby-Dick marathons, Russia is reading War and Peace.
December 8, 2015
Bijan Stephen
It looks like Wired found the real Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous individual who created bitcoin.
December 8, 2015
Esther Breger
“Even Twiggy Eats” is my new favorite photo caption.
December 8, 2015
Laura Marsh
The Year in Literary Backlash
A guide to books the critics loved and hated in equal measure.
December 8, 2015
Laura Reston
Move over SoulCycle. There’s a new overpriced boutique fitness class in town.
December 8, 2015
Marian Bull
Mastering the Art of Stoned Cooking
A new cookbook aims to do for weed what Julia Child did for French cuisine.
December 8, 2015
Sarah Weinman
The Case of the Disappearing Black Detective Novel
Hughes Allison was a black mystery writer with a promising future. What went wrong?
December 8, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
This is what it’s like to look just like John Lennon.
December 8, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
“Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear.”
December 8, 2015
Max Rivlin-Nadler
What Would a Real Freelancer’s Union Look Like?
December 7, 2015
Laura Marsh
Another “great books” poll boringly confirms the dominance of Middlemarch.

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