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Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

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Is it possible to exclude ideology from debate on our most controversial social issues? Thomas Chatterton Williams thinks so

Drake, in Search of Lost Time

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Constantine Cavafy is an indispensable poet that was throughout his life poised to disappear into obscurity

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You sound like ChatGPT

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F. Scott Fitzgerald is the most foolish of American writers. He was foolish in his successes, and no less foolish in his many failures

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In 1829, Thomas Carlyle declared the "age of machinery." Nearly 200 years later, we don't simply use machines; we inhabit them

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What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

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Over two bizarre weeks in a Boston courtroom, Charlie Tyson sized up the threat to intellectual life in America

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Ivan Bunin Hated Everyone

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Strangers in the Family Album: Reflections on Soviet Amateur Photography

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Pei-Shen Qian was a talented street painter who found no success – until he began to forge the works of his idols

Colin Burrow: Let custards quake

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27 Notes on Growing Old(er)

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In an anthology of mid-century American poetry composed in psychiatric hospitals, James Schuyler deserved prominent billing

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The Pain of Perfectionism

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What Can a Cell Remember?

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More than 100 books have been written about Gustav Mahler. Too few do what needs to be done: defend his use of cowbells

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