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What We’re Loving: Fires, Isolation, Whispering Gallery
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“A Garish Nightmare of American Annihilation,” and Other News
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Literature Is Money, and Other News
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Slate weighs in on the e-book case: “The DoJ’s action effectively robs publishers of the ability to price their own products and robs other retailers of any hope of competing effectively with Amazon....
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What We’re Loving: Fires, Isolation, Whispering Gallery
Remember Rod McKuen? He’s the one who wrote those illustrated books of free verse with titles like Come to Me in Silence and Listen to the Warm. In the 1970s, McKuen called himself America’s most...
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“A Garish Nightmare of American Annihilation,” and Other News
Geoffrey Biggs’s Hiroshima cover (detail), 1948. Ice cream: delicious summertime treat or agent of moral turpitude? In fin de siècle Scotland, ice cream parlors “with mirrored walls and leather seats”...
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Literature Is Money, and Other News
From the cover of Secondhand Time. There’s a great Tom Waits song called “What’s He Building in There?” that I’ve thought about a lot as we ponder the Trump transition: “He’s hiding from us,” Waits...
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Unspeakable Affections
Brilliant Chang and the Sinophobia that birthed a moral panic in early twentieth-century London. Brilliant Chang Edward White’s The Lives of Others is a series about unusual, largely forgotten figures...
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