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Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
W.G. Sebald's melancholy art
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The strange history of hygiene
The specter of a no-growth world
Arthur Schlesinger's diaries reveal a blindness to the changing political landscape
Nadine Gordimer does as she pleases
Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno
Secular fantasies of a godless age
A tragic history of a divided people
John Updike and the book-review bugaboo
Thomas Hardy and the limits of biographies
How architecture went from radical to chic
Denis Johnson writes the big novel
Philip Roth and the end of Zuckerman
The sinister charm of Frederick Seidel
A short history of prudery, feminist and otherwise
The family ties that bind
India, China, and the global economy
Reading Leonard Michaels
Don DeLillo without his towers
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