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Counter Culture
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Fighting for literature in an age of algorithms

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On Not Being Well Read
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I loved reading before I could read. I have a distinct memory — yes, our memories are subject to lapses and improvisations, but this one has been around so long I…

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Library of Dribble
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From Conversations, a collection of dialogues conducted in 1984 and 1985 between Jorge Luis Borges and the Argentine poet Osvaldo Ferrari, out next month from Seagull Books. Translated from the…

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To the Penal Colony
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By Masha Gessen, from Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, out now from Riverhead Books. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, members of the Russian punk-rock…

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The Lost Yearling
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An American classic fades away

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Beyond the Book
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By Mark Kingwell, from a keynote speech delivered in May at the annual meeting of the Writers’ Union of Canada and published in the Ottawa Citizen. Kingwell is a professor…

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Required reading
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The western cannon
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Radio days
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The destiny of Borges
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Staying Awake
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Notes on the alleged decline of reading

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