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Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
The friendship of Wordsworth and Coleridge
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The metamorphosis of conflict
Ralph Ellison and the perils of publicity
The invention of human rights
Roberto Bola??±o's nomadic fiction
The caustic energy of Weimar art
In praise of Milan Kundera's hypocrisies
The resurrection of Vergil
Romancing the Algerian war
Susan Sontag's self-corrections
William James and our homegrown way of thought
Edgar Allan Poe, consulting detective
Rethinking the Black Power movement
Two worldviews, one writer
The inimitable Thomas Bernhard
The ecstasy of Richard Dawkins
A reckoning with disgrace
The fake quest for an "authentic Democrat"
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's new novel
The stories of Edward P. Jones
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