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How Did Design Become the Solution to Everything?

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The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

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For influential 20th-century anthropologists, religion could not be reduced to its social function or explained away by other metadiscourses

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Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

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Are Young People Having Enough Sex?

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Does a Focus on Royalty Obscure British History?

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Catching up with Geoff Dyer

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“Violence follows Harry Crews around like an oversized lapdog, eager to spring upon him with bone-crunching love”

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Best-sellers were once written by authors like Mary McCarthy and J. D. Salinger. Now they’re written by those like James Patterson. What changed?

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Encounters With Reality

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In America, has the backlash against Marxism been more influential than the theory itself?

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Edward Burra’s tour of the 20th century

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What’s Happening to Reading?

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Tom Crewe on the “ridiculous, sententious” writing of Ocean Vuong: “It was one of the worst ordeals of my reading life”

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Politicians love to mock seemingly useless studies of shrimp treadmills and gecko mechanics — but silly science plays a vital role

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Could the Semicolon Die Out? Recent Analysis Finds a Decline in Its Usage in British Literature and Confusion Among U.K. Students

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James Schuyler, whose poems exuded calm, was prone to anxiety attacks, nervous breakdowns, morbid depressions, and manic episodes

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Thomas Mallon has mastered the bitchy aperçu and brisk, summarizing detail. In short, he's an ideal diarist

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Meet the members of the Dull Men’s Club: ‘Some of them would bore the ears off you’

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Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker seek to parochialize the human, showing that our activities may just be a cosmic sideshow

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