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An Imaginary Exhibit: The Big Idea, Engines of Progress, Self-Creation, Generative AI, More
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My Favorite Books about Books: A Reading List for True Bibliophiles
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How Long Should This Sentence Be? Bad Question
Pardon Me While I Lodge a Complaint
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
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Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
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What Monks Know about Focus
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The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution
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What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
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Protesting the Decline of Reading
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Never Quite Home: 2 Incomplete Answers for a World in Flux
Dueling Dystopias: Reviewing Yoko Tawada’s ‘Scattered All Over the Earth’ Trilogy and ‘The Emissary’
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We Almost Lost the Statue of Liberty, and Other Misadventures in Maintenance
Reviewing Stewart Brand’s ‘Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One’
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The Terrible Books of Terrible Men
My Conversation with Daniel Kalder on What He Learned While Reading Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Gaddafi, and Other Prolific Despots
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The Beautiful Mess of Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’
When a Novelist Attempts to Write Scripture
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Chasing My Hat Through 12 Classic Novels
Read Along with My 2026 Reading Plan—and the Tenuous Theory Holding It Together
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The Ancient Roman Guide to Building Your Personal Library
6 Ways to Assemble an Enviable Book Collection in a World Long Before Amazon
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10 Tips to Read More This Coming Year
Simple Strategies to Stretch the Marginal Time We All Have to Read More This Year than Last
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When All Your Stories Get Scrambled
Reviewing Mario Vargas Llosa’s Classic Comic Novel ‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’
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Top 10 and More: The Best Books I Read in 2025
I Read 112 Books This Year. Here’s What I Liked Most. Plus: A Major Milestone
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