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Sep 24, 2025
A few months ago, as a result of the strange, hazy possession that occurs while sitting in front of the laptop screen, I “found myself”—a phrase I’ve disliked...
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May 16, 2025
Lamb
Early in The Novelist, the narrator reflects on Kirkegaard’s idea of the real novelist. Did you ever arrive at a certain life-view or unifying life-task for the...
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Apr 10, 2025
The study hall in my high school was a large open area with beige desks lined in a row. Fluorescent lights dumbly hummed over the linoleum floors and trapped me in between....
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Feb 27, 2025
In recent years, author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has been a singularly incisive commentator on cultural trends at the intersection of religion, politics,...
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Feb 3, 2025
As a teen, the distance between the present and future was mysterious and unbreachable. Parental appeals to the future didn’t work. “Think of the future,”...