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Annie Dillard Gave It All

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A New Book Examines The Wickedness Of Trump. Sort Of.

Interviews

Nicholas Russell’s Debut Novel Gets Weird In The Desert

Interviews

How NFL Teams Avoid The Great Big Middle

Interviews

Talking To Emily St. John Mandel About Revision, Timeline Corruption, And Living Without A Floor

Tennis

An Interview With A Biographer Of Renée Richards, An Actual Trans Pro Athlete

Arts And Culture

What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”?

Arts And Culture

A Brief Consideration Of Some Fictional Big Boys

August 16, 2026
Interviews

‘The Cruelest Game’ Examines Tennis As Torture

August 12, 2026
Books

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

August 6, 2026
Books

Danny McBride Leaves You Wandering

July 24, 2026
Interviews

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

July 22, 2026
Books

Can Men Stop Hating Women?

July 21, 2026
Books

How Cops Consolidated So Much Power Over Local Governments

Arts And Culture

‘Famous Men’ And Ambitious Women

July 14, 2026
Arts And Culture

‘New Skin’ Offers A Fresh Take On Body Horror

June 18, 2026
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

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