Walking a fine line between principled opposition and crankdom, critic A.S. Hamrah rails against Rotten Tomatoes, texting at the movies, and digital projection

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Did Western psychiatric taxonomies eliminate such disorders as “pibloktoq” (a wintertime psychosis) and “kufungisisa” (thinking too much)?

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Malcolm Cowley’s Stalinism reveals him to have been a fool and a knave. What does it say about his literary acumen?

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Lionel Shriver in exile. The novelist has managed to alienate the literati. She's fine with that

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The Left Case for Great Books

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The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled

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That books are disappearing along with our capacities for complex and rational thought has become a ubiquitous belief. Doesn't mean it's true

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The vapid radicalism of American studies. Scholars are quick to denote “racist, patriarchal, imperial” forces, but where does that take the field?

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Oscar Wilde, William Morris, and John Ruskin were exemplars of socialist aesthetics, advancing the view that more leisure would result in better art

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With its mania for taxonomy and penchant for tidy solutions, psychiatry is ripe for reinvention. A new book takes a swing

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“Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?

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Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much

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Why do so many authors and critics remain attached to a “literary fiction” genre in our completely commercialized literary landscape?

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How the New Yorker Story — short, plainly-written, plotless, with slightly-enigmatic endings — became a genre unto itself

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Strains, Tensions, Exaltations

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Leonardo Sciascia, Sicilian public intellectual, never got over seeing a mafioso tell an indebted shopkeeper that his daughter “seems almost alive”

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David Rieff, Doritos, and the intellectual deformations of social media. “I don’t exactly think better of myself for all the time I spend on Twitter”

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Philip Roth’s coldhearted betrayals

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Championing “Attensity!”, the attention liberation movement is here promoting a digital detox. Does it offer anything new?

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Inside the Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing

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