Plummeting Upstairs: On Joseph Sassoon's “The Sassoons”

Tom Kromer, Appalachia’s Forgotten Modernist

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Danielle Steel's Production Function

Revising the History of DDT’s Long-Tailed Legacy

Cycles of History: On Jody Rosen’s “Two Wheels Good”

Roads to Everywhere

Every Age Gets the Mythology It Deserves

Mirror-Man: On Aaron Poochigian’s Translation of Baudelaire

On Floating Upstream

On Aaron Matz’s “The Novel and the Problem of New Life”

Dictionaries Define Us: Margaret Boyle and Ilan Stavans in Conversation

A Professor Warns the Internet 'is Not What You Think It Is'

Silicon Valley’s Supposed Obsession with Tech-Free Private Schools (2019)

Sciences of Dune: Pharmacology

Arguing About the Origins of Science

May I Quote?

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A Private Gentleman: On “The Trials of Harry S. Truman”

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

Mapping the Wander Lines: The Quiet Revelations of Fernand Deligny (2015)

On Cat Pictures

The Sleep of Reason Produces Cats

To the Grave: Secrets, Sins, and Nuclear Insecurity

What If?: New Insight into the Friendship of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot

Tracing Octavia Butler’s footsteps

Living in the World: Peter Brooks on Balzac

The Truth Shall Make You Free: Catholicism and the CIA

The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle: Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” at 100

The California Life of Czesław Miłosz

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