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Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and the Art of Self-Reinvention

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Larry McMurtry in Hollywood. His novels became source material for movies that reinscribed the very myths of the West that he had sought to undo

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Why can humans, unlike all other animals, make pyramids, or spaceships, or musical instruments? Language

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When an author says she had to decline a $175,000 prize, what does it say about the publishing world?

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Ben Lerner’s Big Feelings

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Ancient Greek cities joined the Delian League to resist Persian aggression. They soon found themselves under the thumb of Athens

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You’ve lived this life before

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Who Gets Guggenheims?

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“The American novel offers the dream of escape: away from civilization and into the forest, away from marriage and onto the sea, away from history and back to b...

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If you would save the planet, forget The Planet. Think only of the sensual properties of one dear place

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Your sous vide wand. Your car. Your search results. All enshittified, all on purpose, all at once. Cory Doctorow explains

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“In my day, artists kept it real” is a sentiment that will never get old — as long as ageing critics keep employing it

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B-Sides: Albert O. Hirschman’s “The Passions and the Interests”

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The Profession That Does Not Exist

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The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain

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Clocked Out

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Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks review – the writing secrets of Stephen King

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Gin and secrets: We know the Cambridge Five betrayed Britain, but the damage they caused runs deeper than we previously knew

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Novels of the Future | Aaron Matz, Willa Glickman

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Jamaica Kincaid: “I find England ugly…I hate England; the weather is like a jail sentence…the food in England is like a jail sentence”

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