To historians, the world has always imagined its own demise; to critics, the end of the world is imminent. Meanwhile, my generation demands to read both apocalypses instantly and for…

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Becoming Pauline Kael

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A revolution in cartography

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The eternally youthful Nicholson Baker

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The good life without God

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Joe Brainard's universal prose

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Salvation for the mother of African-American literature

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A pundit's rosy view of the Pax Americana

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The postwar unmaking of Samuel Beckett

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James Ellroy tries to let go

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Translation and traduction

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A reappraisal of Dutch Golden Age paintings

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The WTC memorial

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Why the finance industry never had to lie

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The afterlives of Philip Larkin

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The false nostalgia of Mad Men

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A Czech’s boozy refuge from writer’s bloc

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Christopher Hitchens's marks and misses

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