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Writing renaissance
Oldest cookbook
Deculturation
HBS drama
The Raphael of Cats
Thom Gunn
Remembering Y2K
James C. Scott
Invention of childhood
Elephant names
Tina Brown on Martin Amis
Valley of the books
Chinese keyboard
Literary treasures
Patriotic exercise
Long audiobooks
Professor and pornographer
Divas
Notorious pest
Drama at Penguin Random House
Cromwell's prophecy
Alice Munro, R.I.P.
Lauren Michele Jackson
Plant intelligence
End of reading?
Global entropy
Claire Messud
War of words
John Guillory
Homepages
Eileen Myles
Backstories
New Yorker succession
Book thieves
Emily Oster
Helen Vendler, R.I.P.
Architectural gifts
Daniel Dennett, R.I.P.
Writing in China
Jameson at 90
Why philosophy?
Liberalism
Vinson Cunningham
The Diggers
Goodbye New York
'Pluralism'
Death and typos