Essential Worker, Expendable Worker: On Edward Ashton’s “Mickey7”

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Imperfect Wisdom: On Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to Ourselves”

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Living in the Present: Kieran Setiya’s “Midlife: A Philosophical Guide” (2018)

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The Overlooked Indian Dynasties: On Anirudh Kanisetti’s “Lords of the Deccan”

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Revising the History of DDT’s Long-Tailed Legacy

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Cycles of History: On Jody Rosen’s “Two Wheels Good”

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Roads to Everywhere

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Every Age Gets the Mythology It Deserves

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Wither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism

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A Genius on the Wrong Side of History: Tolstoy’s Conflicts and Contradictions

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On Floating Upstream

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Mirror-Man: On Aaron Poochigian’s Translation of Baudelaire

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Dictionaries Define Us: Margaret Boyle and Ilan Stavans in Conversation

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Sciences of Dune: Pharmacology

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Arguing About the Origins of Science

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Weird Science

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May I Quote?

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Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

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Is Geoengineering the Solution?: Exploring Climate Crisis in “Termination Shock”

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To the Grave: Secrets, Sins, and Nuclear Insecurity

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What If?: New Insight into the Friendship of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot

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“Only Lovers Live in the Present”: On the Notebooks of Patricia Highsmith

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The Wrath of the Gods:Surviving the Pandemic with Petronius,Fitzgerald,and Eliot

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Beautiful Lies: The Art of the Deep Fake

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Tracing Octavia Butler’s Footsteps: An Interview with Dr. Ayana A. H. Jamieson

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Living in the World: Peter Brooks on Balzac

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The Truth Shall Make You Free: Catholicism and the CIA

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The California Life of Czesław Miłosz

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The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle: Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” at 100

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“Nonexistence Seems Preferable” Post-Truth, Feed Identity, and the NPC Afterlife

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The “Decline and Fall” of Rome – A Dangerous Idea?

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Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated

Reviewing “On the Fringe,” Suman Seth uses 18th-century theories of putrefaction to show how flimsy the line between science and pseudoscience can be. | Continue reading

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The Invention of “Xenophobia”

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Haunted by Houses: On the California Victorian in Fiction

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“Logic Alone, All Love Laid By”: Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” (2019)

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Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? (2020)

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Typical Gemini: On the “Selected Poetry” of Alexander Pushkin

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Corpse Capitalism

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A New Look at the Hobo

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The Dream Economy

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At Shul, We Drink Single Malt: On “A Fortress in Brooklyn”

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Descartes’s Evil Genius

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“Flipping” the History of Literary Studies

John Guillory ventures through "The Teaching Archive," the new history of literary studies by Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan. | Continue reading

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Brave New LA: Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles (2013)

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Archival Futures: The Archive as a Place and the Place of the Archive

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The Quiet Mysticism of Almanacs

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Shadows Walking: With Wallace Stevens in New Haven

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Cats and the Good Life

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