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Oct 30, 2025
It’s hard to wrestle with Gay Talese. At 93, he is old but spry, and his sentences are so quietly, consistently effective that you may not realize he has you pinned.
Reading a...
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Oct 1, 2025
Paul Kingsnorth celebrated his 50th birthday in a cave in County Clare, Ireland, as a storm swept over the landscape. “Great nails of rain hammered down,” he wrote....
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Sep 26, 2025
Adam Valen Levinson yearned to learn Arabic. He did and wrote about it in The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East. His publisher, W.W. Norton,...
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Jan 6, 2025
There is much that remains murky about Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who rammed his truck into New Year’s Eve revellers in New Orleans, murdering 15 of them. But we do know this much: He...
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Jan 2, 2025
It was a congressional aide, of all people, who clued me in to “The Public Burning,” Robert Coover’s magnificent novel about American politics, which is even more...
Oct 30, 2025It’s hard to wrestle with Gay Talese. At 93, he is old but spry, and his sentences are so quietly, consistently effective that you may not realize he has you pinned. Reading a...
Oct 1, 2025Paul Kingsnorth celebrated his 50th birthday in a cave in County Clare, Ireland, as a storm swept over the landscape. “Great nails of rain hammered down,” he wrote....
Sep 26, 2025Adam Valen Levinson yearned to learn Arabic. He did and wrote about it in The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East. His publisher, W.W. Norton,...
Jan 6, 2025There is much that remains murky about Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who rammed his truck into New Year’s Eve revellers in New Orleans, murdering 15 of them. But we do know this much: He...
Jan 2, 2025It was a congressional aide, of all people, who clued me in to “The Public Burning,” Robert Coover’s magnificent novel about American politics, which is even more...