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September 13, 2015
Ratik Asokan
Wim Wenders: "I Never Learned Anything from the History of Cinema"
September 12, 2015
Alex Shephard
The Hunt for a Possible Pynchon Novel Leads to a Name
Literary speculation begun by Harper’s Magazine is traced to an author in Hawaii—A.J. Perry
September 12, 2015
Liesl Bradner
How a Black Man From Missouri Transformed Himself Into the Indian Liberace
September 11, 2015
Matthew Pratt Guterl
'Jack Reacher' Embodies the American View of Justice: White, Male, and Lawless
September 11, 2015
Douglas Kearney
Drifters Afterschool
September 11, 2015
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Falling Asleep in the Afterlife
Why are books about visiting heaven so boring—and popular?
September 11, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Travel Writing Doesn’t Need Any More Voices Like Paul Theroux's
September 11, 2015
Vlad Chituc
GamerGate: A Culture War for People Who Don't Play Video Games
September 11, 2015
Jason Guriel
Has 'Dressed to Kill' Outlived Its 80s Shock Value?
September 10, 2015
Paul Dawson
Is the "Five Second Rule" Real? A Food Scientist Explains.
September 10, 2015
Elaine Teng
When Family Is the Thing You Can't Escape
September 10, 2015
Michael Eric Dyson
Think Out Loud
An emerging black digital intelligentsia has embraced online technology to change American ideas
September 9, 2015
Esther Breger
Stephen Colbert Isn't Re-Inventing Late Night—He's Just Doing It Better Than Anyone Else
September 9, 2015
Stacia L. Brown
Parenting Shouldn’t Be About Self-Sacrifice, Whatever Your Income
September 9, 2015
Jane Hu
'You’re The Worst' Shows Why Rom-Coms Should Be as Sad and Painful as Real Relationships
September 9, 2015
Ethan Gates
Once A Joke Goes Viral, Who Cares Where It Came From?
September 9, 2015
Sasha Abramsky
My Grandfather Built a House of 20,000 Books From the Ashes of War
September 9, 2015
Michelle Dean
Drunk Confessions
Women and the clichés of the literary drunkard.
September 8, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Female Friendship Myth
Lacking a gang of female friends is a greater stigma than being single
September 8, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Labor Movement Needs to Take a Side on Criminal Justice Reform

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