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Book Review: ‘53 Days,’ by Timothy W. Ryback

In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.

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Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses

Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses

Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president’s son. A fiasco ensued

Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president’s son. A fiasco ensued

Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists

Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists

A wine so thick you could write with it. Pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food

A wine so thick you could write with it. Pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food

A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this glamorous, supremely insouciant writer was once boring

A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this glamorous, supremely insouciant writer was once boring

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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word

In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word

A wine so thick you could write with it and pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food

A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this supremely insouciant, glamorous writer was once boring

A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this supremely insouciant, glamorous writer was once boring

Barbie, for Book Lovers

Can You Match These Quotations to the Correct Book?

Can You Match These Quotations to the Correct Book?

What Dolly Did for Tennessee Is What She Did for the World