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February 23, 2014
Michael Kimmage
The 150-Year Hunt for the Great American Novel
And why we need literary scholarship to reunite with literary criticism
February 21, 2014
Hillary Kelly
George Eliot's Strangely Modern Life
February 20, 2014
Hillary Kelly
John Sutherland's Little History of Literature Skims Too Lightly Over Its Subject
February 20, 2014
Laura Bennett
The Book Industry Is So Scared of Amazon, No One Will Talk on the Record
Except these people
February 19, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
The Five Worst Books Ever Written By Great Authors
February 19, 2014
Chloe Schama
Too Much Ambition Doesn't Always Break a Novel
February 17, 2014
Jessica Grose
Why We're So Obsessed with 'Natural' Childbirth
A new history of Lamaze explains the origins of the mythology
February 15, 2014
Sarah Ditum
Apparently Having an Opinion about Sex Is Now a Taboo
Maybe, possibly, there’s something wrong with your idea of what is sexy.
February 14, 2014
Richard Saul
ADHD Does Not Exist
February 9, 2014
Jonathan Galassi
The Writer, Seducer, Aviator, Proto-Fascist, Megalomaniac Prince Who Shaped Modern Italy
From Gabriele D'Annunzio to Silvio Berlusconi
February 1, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Charlie Crist's Achingly Bad Search for Self
February 1, 2014
Simon Heffer
What Really Happened at the Battle of Waterloo
January 31, 2014
Claire Carusillo
The 11 Most Alain de Botton Sentences in Alain de Botton’s New Book
January 27, 2014
Michael Suk-Young Chwe, William Deresiewicz
Can You Apply Game Theory to Jane Austen?
January 24, 2014
Adam Kirsch
No, Mein Kampf Is Not an Amazon Bestseller
January 23, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Islamic Fundamentalists vs the Missionary Position
January 22, 2014
Meredith Broussard
Why E-books Are Banned in My Digital Journalism Class
January 21, 2014
George Woodcock
Five Writers Who Feared The Future
January 19, 2014
William Deresiewicz
No, Jane Austen Was Not a Game Theorist
Using science to explain art is a good way to butcher both
January 18, 2014
Juliet Bellow
Balanchine's Mystery Woman
The dancer who might have set the course for 20th-century ballet

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