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Is Humbert Humbert Jewish?

Mark Ford

Andrea Pitzer's 'The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov'

How to Succeed in Business

Anne Applebaum

Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In' and Hanna Rosin's 'The End of Men'

The False Claims for Austerity

Austerity economics is in a very bad way. Its predictions have proved utterly wrong; its founding academic documents haven’t just lost their canonized status, they’ve become the objects of much ridicule. None of this should have come as a surprise: basic macroeconomics should have told everyone to expect what did, in fact, happen, and the papers that have now fallen into disrepute were obviously flawed from the start. This raises the obvious question: Why did austerity economics get such a powerful grip on elite opinion in the first place?

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MoMA: A Needless Act of Destruction

Martin Filler
Demolishing the American Folk Art Museum

An Original Thinker of Our Time

Cass R. Sunstein
Jeremy Adelman's 'Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman'

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Andrew O’Hagan
The moral legacy of Margaret Thatcher

He Conceived the Mathematics of Roughness

Jim Holt
Benoit Mandelbrot's 'The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick'

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The Debt We Shouldn’t Pay

Robert Kuttner
David Graeber's 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years'

On Anthony Lewis (1927–2013)

David Cole
A path-breaking journalist who was the nation’s most consistent voice for justice for over half a century

Pinning Down Spartacus

Mary Beard
If his uprising was not an early example of class warfare, then what was driving Spartacus?

The Real Karl Marx

John Gray
Jonathan Sperber’s 'Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life'

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Scientology: The Story

Diane Johnson
Lawrence Wright’s 'Going Clear' and Jenna Miscavige Hill's 'Beyond Belief'

The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!

Robert Darnton
The utopian and pragmatic Digital Public Library of America

Vichy Lives!—In a Way

Robert O. Paxton
The legacy of the Vichy regime in modern France

How Animals May Cause the Next Big One

Florence Williams
David Quammen's 'Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic'

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Surrealism Made Fresh

Sanford Schwartz
Rediscovering a movement that was romantic and revolutionary in its goals

What Rules Should Govern US Drone Attacks?

Kenneth Roth
Any program that kills on the basis of secret intelligence risks abuse. We need clear limits in the law.

Afghanistan: The Way to Peace

Anatol Lieven

Beethoven and the Quality of Courage

Daniel Barenboim
A composer unafraid of going to the edge of the precipice

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Palmer Brown
The Alteration
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Anna Seghers
The Abandoned
Paul Gallico
The Crisis of the European Mind
Paul Hazard
Miguel Hernández
Miguel Hernández
Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
Alexander Vvedensky
Pitch Dark
Renata Adler
Speedboat
Renata Adler
An Armenian Sketchbook
Vasily Grossman
Diary of a Man in Despair
Friedrich Reck
On the Edge
Markus Werner
Testing the Current
William McPherson
Basti
Intizar Husain
Happy Moscow
Andrey Platonov

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Jonathan Sperber’s 'Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life'

Diane Johnson
Lawrence Wright’s 'Going Clear' and Jenna Miscavige Hill's 'Beyond Belief'

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The utopian and pragmatic Digital Public Library of America

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David Quammen's 'Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic'

Sanford Schwartz
Rediscovering a movement that was romantic and revolutionary in its goals

Kenneth Roth
Any program that kills on the basis of secret intelligence risks abuse. We need clear limits in the law.

Daniel Barenboim
A composer unafraid of going to the edge of the precipice