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My Book! ‘The Idea Machine’ Is Almost Here
A Book about Books: How They Helped Create Our World and Still Shape Our Future
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Narrative Control: How Stories Dominate Our Lives
Reviewing Alissa Wilkinson’s ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine’
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Machines Don’t Believe. Is That Our Secret Advantage?
Why Belief—and Especially Disbelief—Might Remain Uniquely Human
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What Monks Know about Focus
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
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What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
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Protesting the Decline of Reading
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The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution
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Why Build a Personal Library?
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Machines Don’t Believe. Is That Our Secret Advantage?
Why Belief—and Especially Disbelief—Might Remain Uniquely Human
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A Brief Argument for Short Books
7 Reasons to Love Short Books—Plus 16 Slender Specimens to Try on for Size
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Bookish Diversions: Reading as Help for Living
Making Decisions, Novels as Practice, Theaters for Self-Reflection, Dark Books, Measuring ‘Narrativeness,’ More
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When the Rules No Longer Apply
Reviewing Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’
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Do It for the Fat Lady: Spiritual Crisis and Comic Mercy in ‘Franny and Zooey’
J.D. Salinger’s Quiet Classic Still Speaks. Who’s Listening?
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Give Us Barabbas! We Are Barabbas!
Reviewing Pär Lagerkvist’s Classic, Nobel-Winning Novel ‘Barabbas’
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