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Travel is both laudable and easy to mock. But its pleasures – and ills – are actually quite subtle. Phil Christman explains ..read more
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Note a conspicuous absence in contemporary literature: the unfiltered voice of raw manhood on the pageNote a conspicuous absence in contemporary literature: the unfiltered voice of raw manhood on the page ..read more
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What did Irving Howe deride as “a strange mixture of Guevarist fantasia, residual Stalinism, anarchist braggadocio and homemade tough-guy methods ..read more
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Delmore Schwartz is known more for his descent into madness and ruined potential. What about his actual poetry and prose ..read more
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An old and fraught strain of historiography is resurgent: history as not simply a record but a sacred oracle ..read more
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How to spot a bad argument. Formal fallacies, informal fallacies, and the dishonest ways we argue today ..read more
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Democracy and theater. Ever since they emerged together in Athens, thinkers have debated the relationship between the two ..read more
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Does a free and competitive marketplace of ideas generate truth or does it simply respond to – and even exacerbate – people’s biases ..read more
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Martha Foley was instrumental in popularizing the short story as a literary genre. After she died, her story took a surprising turn ..read more
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The Library of Congress maintains a collection of more than 175 million objects. How does it decide what to keep ..read more