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Charles Baxter’s new novel follows the moral travails of a rock-steady insurance salesman in a dystopian Ohio backwater.
February 27, 2025 issue
The Unhinged Presidency
Many of the legal challenges to Donald Trump’s executive overreach will come down to the Supreme Court. Will it rein him in?
February 11, 2025
A Country for Old Monsters
In Nosferatu and Wolf Man, the forces of evil are not so much confronted as fatalistically, inevitably succumbed to.
February 10, 2025
The Great Leap Backward
Lea Ypi’s memoir of her childhood in Communist Albania asks whether individual freedom is always elusive, even in liberal democracies.
February 27, 2025 issue
Days and Nights in Gaza
Watching TV that first day, we awaited the roar of planes and the rumble of explosions. We didn’t have to wait long.
February 9, 2025
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