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Book Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Jon Ronson

The journalist Jon Ronson finds metaphor and meaning in the story of one man’s baronial fantasia and others like him who are living unmoored from reality.

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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

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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

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He Warned That the End of History Could Be Rough. Maybe Now People Will Listen.

Putin Is Coming for Russian Literature

Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James

Barbie for Grown-Ups

How Marlon James Confronted ‘the Story I Was Not Allowed to Live’

“The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth”: An Economist, Erased

Book Review: ‘Under Story,’ by Chloe Benjamin