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Criticism

“If Only I Could Begin Again!”

The mystery of a writer’s métier

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Good Bad Bad Good

What was the Golden Age of TV?

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Like This or Die

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

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What China Threat?

How the United States and China can avoid war

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Hostile Work Environments

A sexual harassment reading list

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Framing The Shadows

The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith

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Flesh and Blood

Three close encounters with Sons and Lovers

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Who’s Laughing Now?

The tragicomedy of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live

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American Expansion

The innovations of A.R. Ammons

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Killing Bill O’Reilly

The disgraced broadcaster’s distortions of history

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The Watchmen

What became of the Christian intellectuals?

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Abandon All Hope

Hieronymus Bosch comes home

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Something Big

The legend of the Watts Towers

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Slender Mercies

The gospel according to Extreme Weight Loss

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Rethinking Extinction

Toward a less gloomy environmentalism

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A Goose in a Dress

In which our intrepid restaurant critic submits to the dreams and excesses of New York’s most fashionable eateries

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Counter Culture

Fighting for literature in an age of algorithms

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Legends of the Lost

The discreet charm of movies we cannot see

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The Tale of the Tape

The miracle of Straight Life

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America’s Ancestry Craze

Making sense of our family-tree obsession

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The Lost Yearling

An American classic fades away

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Damage Control

The modern art world’s tyranny of price

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The Shining Path

Room 237 and the Kubrick cult

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Our Town

How Roger Barker made Oskaloosa, Kansas, his laboratory

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