Joan Didion was 70 before she finished a nonfiction book not drawn from magazine assignments. Her talent is spinning craftwork into art
27. January 2021
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Critics hold that “the question of correctness is generally irrelevant” in poetry. But they’re mistaken about poets’ mistakes
26. January 2021
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Pirate publishers saturated the market, then filled their warehouses with unsaleable stock. The result? The publishing crash of 1783
26. January 2021
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The Ghost Shirt Rituals: Preparing for the End of the World
25. January 2021
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Moral Mask, Rationalizing or Mental Illness?
25. January 2021
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Robert Gottlieb on Harold Bloom: "It is a tremendous pity that the final statement from a critic of such significance...should be this disjointed effort"
25. January 2021
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Oligarchs stepped in to bolster the arts in post-Soviet Russia. But is the work they have bankrolled any good?
23. January 2021
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Trump’s Abandoned Mob
22. January 2021
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Conspiracy theories have always existed and always will. The problem isn’t with the theories, but with our susceptibility to them
22. January 2021
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The Risk of Excessive Conservatism
22. January 2021
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