Hillary Kelly

About that Rand Paul Cover Photo...

A Conversation with Platon

 An interview with Platon, who photographed this issue's cover with Rand Paul, discussing the experience, his art, plus various portraits throughout. 

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A Failure of Imagination

Why Bookish and other recommendation engines fall short

Why Bookish and other recommendation engines fall short.

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Philip Hensher's historical account of handwriting loses sight of how deeply personal the medium is.

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For the past twenty-plus years, The Martha Stewart Empire (not its real name, of course, but who doesn’t think of it that way?)—led by their taupe pant-suited leader—has dutifully monitored the cult of domesticity. The media has gleefully followed Martha’s ups and downs. With recent news of major financial blunders, Martha Stewart may be down, but don’t count her out.

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In this novel Kingsolver abandons the spirited determination of her memoir in favor of transparent literary activism.

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As a student of literature, Roth ought to know better. If he really wants his papers destroyed, he needs to do it himself.

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How to pan the great works of literature on Amazon? Meet the five varieties of one-star amateur reviewer:

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The Good Reader

The literary community needs more smart criticism, not less positive criticism.

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The Voyage In

Alexandra Harris says that “much of Virginia Woolf’s writing life was devoted to … exposing the falsity involved in defining anyone as ‘this’ or ‘that

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Since the launch of her blog, Style Rookie, in 2008, now-15-year-old Tavi Gevinson has mutated from little girl in dress-up clothes to media darling modeling couture, and the whole world, strangely, appears to be watching. A profile in The New Yorker and another in this week’s New York Times Magazine, various gigs shilling for fashion magazines, and a multitude of infatuated bloggers have made Tavi a household name despite, or perhaps because of, her tender age and relative inexperience.

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