The Lying Life of Adults review – another impeccable Elena Ferrante TV show
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Bob Gottlieb, 91, the last of the publishing giants, has a lament: “Publishing has grown more and more corporate.”... more »
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As a critic of the militarization of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War and beyond, George Kennan had few if any peers... more »
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When Caroline Schlegel fell in love with the much younger Friedrich Schelling, her husband didn’t mind: “Her next lover is still wearing a little sailor suit!”... more »
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In 16th-century Virginia, English painters confronted a novel visual challenge: the tattoos of Native Americans... more »
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Roman London. From the years 43 to 60 AD, it went from a backwater to a prosperous city to a burnt ruin... more »
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Is Emily in Paris one of the most insipid pieces of television ever devised — or a self-aware and withering work of media criticism? ... more »
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Louisa May Alcott's name is synonymous with girls, though she didn't know or like many of them... more »
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The culture of the dandy and the flâneur also gave us the feuilleton. Joseph Roth was a master of the form... more »
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Ode to booze: Singing in groups has long had something to do with good drinking. Or drinking to the good... more »
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Love and loss, abandonment and suffering, death and resurrection: Why The Velveteen Rabbithas survived a century... more »
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For your ideas to succeed, said Friedrich Hayek, you have to outlive those who hate them. He died at the height of his fame... more »
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The indiscriminate embrace of figurative painting is not without undesirable consequences, notably artists who cannot in fact paint... more »
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The Santa Fe Institute, renowned as a bastion of brilliant and heterodox views, is the intellectual home of Cormac McCarthy ... more »
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What makes a book a book? Durability. Prophecies the book's demise have always given rise to new kind of books ... more »
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Terry Eagleton rereads the Biblical story of Christmas, savoring the anomalies, oddities, and joys ... more »
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As an art student, Edward Hopper moved to New York at a time of dynamic new approaches. He wanted nothing to do with them... more »
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Dickens and the rock star Prince shared a striking fashion sense, verbal lyricism, an addiction to audiences, and a lifelong engagement with Christianity. Does it matter?... more »
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Heidegger warned of how technology imposes a particular order on reality. What would he make of AI-produced culture?... more »
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Turgenev’s legacy: The best contemporary writing derives from the storytelling voice he pioneered... more »
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What are the best scholarly books of 2022? Anthony Grafton, Martha S. Jones, Matthew Desmond, and others make their picks... more »
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"We are witnessing the invasion of the public square by the campus, an intrusion of academic terms and sensibilities." Russell Jacoby explains... more »