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Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
The verbal burlesque of A.J. Liebling
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Searching history for an imperial alibi
The politics of sin and secularism
Armageddon in an age of entertainment
On why all writing is travel writing
The curious phenomenon of Borges
The bloody history of the Lone Star State
The rise and fall of the American superhero
When horror invades protocol
J.M. Coetzee and the art of lucidity
Fundamentalism goes to Hollywood
The realism of Natalia Ginzburg
Stanley Elkin imagines the life after life
John Currin's sleight of hand
Will it play in Pittsfield?
Guy Davenport’s heretical fictions
The varieties of technological experience
The plight of the body in modern thought
The inexhaustible Paul Val??©ry
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