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By the Victorian era, Milton had been demoted from sublime poet to good liberal, a republican robbed of radicalness

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Generative AI loves it and so the em dash — the elegant, gentle friend to all writers — is under attack

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Everything Evolves by Mark Vellend review – can Darwin explain JD Vance?

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Revenge delivers such an intoxicating chemical high that we regularly stage and imagine grievances necessitating justice

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The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

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Colin Kidd: Lumps of Cram

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“We are obsessed with bad sex and how to protect against it, and we talk about that almost to the exclusion of good sex and how to have it”

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Literary masters offer much wisdom on lassitude and lethargy, but can they help you get in shape? Dwight Garner investigates

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The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

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The university compensates for what many modern democracies struggle to do: Think and act across long historical durations

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A new genre has appeared on the book scene: a biography of a biography. Joseph Epstein has mixed feelings

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Spain Was Different: Tourism Under Franco

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Human nature exists, says Francis Fukuyama, and it's shaped political philosophy. Why then does it meet such resistance?

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Our Golden Age of Reading (Online)

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The Evolution of a Beloved Postcolonial Critic and Literary Giant

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The CIA Book Club started with dropping copies of Animal Farm into East Berlin by balloon

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James Baldwin juggled an infinite number of contrasting ideas, as well as the ability to live with these contradictions

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This Economist Crunched the Numbers and Stopped Dating Men

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Why love matters most

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Among the Blasphemers

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