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June 10, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Saul Bellow's Ferocious Beliefs
Saul's particular combination of intellectuality and vitality was not paradoxical, it was category-shattering.
June 9, 2014
Hillary Kelly
This Is What Dickensian London Really Looked Like
Images of the squalor and sadness of Victorian life
June 9, 2014
Jeet Heer
A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness
Robert A. Heinlein became increasingly right wing, and his novels suffered for it
June 9, 2014
Jessica Grose
The Transgender Rights Movement Needs a Goofy, Basic Foundational Text
It worked for feminism
June 9, 2014
James Pulizzi
In the Near Future, Only Very Wealthy Colleges Will Have English Departments
Adapt (not publish) or perish
June 8, 2014
Jenna Weissman Joselit
'Fiddler on the Roof' Distorted Sholem Aleichem
But Sholem Aleichem distorted shtetl life to begin with
June 8, 2014
Maya Jasanoff
Gandhi Was a Crank Before He Was a Saint
His morally nuanced early years in South Africa
June 6, 2014
Rachel Carter
I Write Young Adult Novels, and I Refuse to Apologize for It
June 5, 2014
Hillary Kelly
In Praise of Reading Whatever the Hell You Want
Don't let Slate make you feel ashamed for reading books that you love
June 5, 2014
Alice Robb
"How Au Courant I Am, Eating This Pig Face"
Why some foods become trendy, and others never take off
June 5, 2014
Joanna Rakoff
The Day I Met J.D. Salinger
June 4, 2014
Kelsey Osgood
Why We Don’t Like Stories in Which the Mentally Ill Heroine Recovers
The surprisingly stable afterlife of the author of 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'
June 3, 2014
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
History Turned the Romanov Sisters Into a Fairy Tale. Here's What They Were Really Like.
June 2, 2014
Alice Robb
The Three Most Important Traits of People Who Make the World Work
"Invisibles" perform key tasks without seeking credit. And they're in high demand.
June 1, 2014
David A. Bell
When French Irrationality Was Deadly
The writers who fell in love with fascism
May 29, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Winner in the Kinsley-Greenwald Spat: The New York Times Book Review
Opinion journalism—which is what a book review is—can not be subject to some kind of impartial standard of correctness.
May 28, 2014
John McWhorter
Saint Maya
Angelou's flawed books helped relieve black writers of the burden of representing their race
May 27, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Jeb Bush Claims He's More Bookish Than His Brother. Karl Rove Begs To Differ.
May 27, 2014
Sarah Weinman
Novels About Famous Writers' Wives Are a Cheap Trick
Leave Zelda, Hadley, and the rest out of it
May 25, 2014
Richard A. Posner
We Need a Strong Prison System
But we need to imprison people for fewer crimes and for less time

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