When Preachers Were Rock Stars
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by Louis Menand
4d ago
A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar ..read more
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When the World Goes Quiet
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by Katy Waldman
1w ago
“The Hearing Test” probes the inner life of a narrator stricken by sudden deafness ..read more
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Percival Everett’s Philosophical Reply to “Huckleberry Finn”
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by Lauren Michele Jackson
3w ago
In his new novel, “James,” Everett explores how an emblem of American slavery can write himself into being ..read more
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What Turned Crossword Constructing Into a Boys’ Club?
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by Anna Shechtman
2M ago
For decades, the pursuit was identified with first-wave feminists and bored housewives. How did it come to be defined by a pervasive gender gap ..read more
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The Bartender and the Lost Literary Masterpiece
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by Simon Parkin
2M ago
How a Manchester native rescued “Caliban Shrieks,” Jack Hilton’s working-class opus ..read more
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New Yorker Writers’ and Editors’ Favorite Bookstores in New York City
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by The New Yorker
2M ago
Where we shop for books in the Big Apple ..read more
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Diary of an Abomination
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by Emil Ferris
2M ago
In an illustrated depiction of a young girl’s self-discovery, monstrosity is only skin-deep ..read more
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“Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?”
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by Jonathan Blitzer
2M ago
Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga was one of the first mothers separated from her children at the border by the Trump Administration. The cruelty she suffered in the United States was matched only by what she was forced to flee in Honduras ..read more
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Robert Glück’s Gloriously Unreliable Memorial to a Lost Love
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by Daniel Felsenthal
3M ago
“About Ed” is a literary monument that harnesses memoir’s emotional honesty while indulging fiction’s stylistic latitude ..read more
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A Forgotten Book of Christmas Poems
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by Casey Cep
4M ago
“American Christmas,” first published in 1965, includes both classic and nearly unknown works, and widens a reader’s sense of what the holiday might mean ..read more
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