From Living on Paper, a collection of Iris Murdoch’s letters published next month by Princeton University Press and Chatto & Windus. Murdoch (1919–99) was the author of numerous novels, including The…

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From queries submitted by telephone and in person to the New York Public Library’s Reference and Research Services between 1940 and 1989.

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Why is the Universe as it is and not something else? Why is the Universe here at all? It is true that at present we have no clue to the…

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The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

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Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests

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A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at — right now!

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Ted Hughes’s evasions

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All the way, at odd times, far off, with neither sense nor sequence, the guns have sounded almost like the noises of peace — blasting or pile-driving. Now, outside the…

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Gambling and suicide in Atlantic City

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