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Claire Stapleton Helped Write The Myth Of Google, But Now She’s Trying To Tell The Truth

Books

Danny McBride Leaves You Wandering

Interviews

Colson Whitehead Talks About Embracing Change, Pulling Off A Heist, And Finding A Good Coffee Table

Books

Can Men Stop Hating Women?

Books

How Cops Consolidated So Much Power Over Local Governments

Arts And Culture

‘Famous Men’ And Ambitious Women

Arts And Culture

‘New Skin’ Offers A Fresh Take On Body Horror

Interviews

Cat Fitzpatrick On Writing Transsexuals Into Iambic Pentameter

Book Excerpts That Don't Suck

“Awfulness For Decades”: A Short History Of Trump And Doonesbury

Defector Reads A Book

There Is A Whole World In ‘The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop.’

Arts And Culture

‘The Vivisectors’ Is A Brilliant Novel In Any Reality

Funbag

I Am Captain Of The Democrats Now. Here Is My Battleplan.

May 26, 2026
Interviews

How The U.S. Military Rots American Masculinity

Arts And Culture

Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘London Falling’ Tries To Separate Fact From Fiction

May 14, 2026
Book Excerpts That Don't Suck

How One Ohio High School Built An Unlikely Gymnastics Dynasty

May 8, 2026
Arts And Culture

Franco Berardi’s ‘Thinking Gaza’ Fails To Think

May 8, 2026
Arts And Culture

Jules Boykoff’s ‘Kicking’ Is Clear-Eyed And Warm-Hearted

Arts And Culture

The Torpor Of ‘Converts’

April 30, 2026
Arts And Culture

Gwendoline Riley’s Phantom Lives

April 27, 2026
Arts And Culture

Lena Dunham Can’t Help Herself

History

The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt

April 15, 2026
Arts And Culture

My Year In November 18ths

April 14, 2026
Arts And Culture

Anatomy Of A Gaucho

Arts And Culture

The Gentle Parenting Of Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’

April 3, 2026
Interviews

Namwali Serpell On Understanding Toni Morrison The Author, Not The Icon

Arts And Culture

Stephen Fishbach’s Reality-TV Novel Is More Reality TV Than Novel

March 19, 2026
Defector Reads A Book

Dan Simmons Is Dead, So It’s Time To Read ‘Hyperion’

Arts And Culture

Don DeLillo’s Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won’t Acknowledge

March 4, 2026
Arts And Culture

Yoko Tawada Is A Genius In Any Language

Interviews

Talking To A. Natasha Joukovsky About Men, Myths, And March Madness

March 2, 2026
Life Lessons

Confessions Of A Bookanizer

February 27, 2026
Life's Rich Pageant

What I Learned From My Annoyingly Long Correspondence With “Elena Ferrante”

February 25, 2026
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