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Getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives

The Lines, They Are A-Changin'

The Varieties of Mystical Experience

Ways of Seeing: Nicholson Baker learns to draw

Shocks to the system: Don DeLillo’s novels of the cold war and its aftermath

A Dance to the Music of Time

Fit Pics: The history of athletic fashion for women

A Bloop and a Blast: The mysterious, mercurial world of baseball fandom

Some Like It Fraught: How Billy Wilder Survived the Twentieth Century

A Spouse Divided: Two new Dostoevsky biographies

The Silence of the Lands

Perverted by Language: Mark E. Smith’s lyrical stage rants

Supreme Authority: How Webster’s Dictionary Defined American Cultural Beliefs

The Vying Animal: The life of Philip Roth and the art of literary survival

Nobody’s Autobiography: Janet Malcolm examines Stein and Toklas in her new book

Service and Devotion: The enduring songcraft of Dolly Parton

A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive

Comedy of Heirs: Catching a glimpse of heaven in the confines of Tristram Shandy

Coeur Values: A new book tracks Frida Kahlo’s Paris years

Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel

The Joy of Text: James Wood’s Inspired Reading

The unending quest to explain consciousness

D.H. Lawrence's stunning, indefensible essays

The Conscience of a Revolutionary

Full Metal Racket: A history sheds light on vc’s ties to the military complex

World War II, Through Children’s Eyes

Letters from a Young Poet: The Final Correspondence of Sylvia Plath

Built to Last: John McPhee's Way of Seeing

A Man in Full: Karl Ove Knausgaard Concludes His Autofiction Epic

Camera Obscura: A biography of street photographer Vivian Maier

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