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Min Jin Lee Says Choosing Community Is Radical

Min Jin Lee, the author of “American Hagwon,” joined “The Book Review” podcast to talk about how building bonds and community can be a strategy for survival.

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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure

Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Winner Whom It Denied Tenure

Silicon Valley’s self-styled futurists build marvelous machines. Their politics, though, recycle discredited ideas. Jill Lepore explains

Robert Frost was both a skeptical believer and a believing skeptic. Yet his letters reveal a soul closer to despair

Robert Frost was both a skeptical believer and a believing skeptic. Yet his letters reveal a soul closer to despair

A quip about Hitler made Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy enemies. A subway-platform truce made them friends for life

A quip about Hitler made Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy enemies. A subway-platform truce made them friends for life

Why Anne Carson, the New Nobel Laureate, Is the Easiest Difficult Poet

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Canadian Poet Anne Carson

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Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

After his 10-year-old daughter died, Darwin sought solace in barnacles. For the naturalist, grief was best relieved by work

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