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Shadow Of A Doubt

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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

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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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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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