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Tour My New Book, ‘The Idea Machine’
An Imaginary Exhibit: The Big Idea, Engines of Progress, Self-Creation, Generative AI, More
Nov 22, 2025
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I Finally Finished ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
Then I Picked a Fight with Myself About What It Means
Apr 11
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Bookish Diversions: The Point of Poetry? Slow Down
Out of Fashion, Lyrical Labor, Phillis Wheatley, Poetry’s Psychology, Smoking Dante, More
Apr 8
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
Jun 29, 2024
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Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
Nov 22, 2025
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What Monks Know about Focus
Mar 9, 2024
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What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
Nov 20, 2024
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The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution
May 14, 2025
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Protesting the Decline of Reading
May 25, 2024
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No One Utters Fopdoodle with Their Dignity Intact
English Is a Circus: 109 Words too Goofy for the Machines, Helpfully Compiled with the Aid of Those Machines
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Getting Lost Where You Live
Noticing the World Around Us: A Conversation with Novelist Denise S. Robbins
Apr 4
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Orwell, Lewis, and Us: What Contemporaries Share Without Seeing
Why Our Fiercest Opponents Are Often Our Closest Relatives
Apr 1
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Bookish Diversions: Use AI, Lose Your Book Deal—and Maybe More
‘Shy Girl’ Canceled; AI Everywhere, or Is It? Can AI Write?
Mar 28
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Solving This Mystery Might Destroy You
Reviewing Paul Auster’s Modern Classic ‘The New York Trilogy’
Mar 25
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Publishing’s Little Secret: It’s All Gambling
Inside the Literary Casino That Publishes What You Read
Mar 21
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Women Saints and Scientists You Should Know
The Inspiring Lives of Maria Skobtsova, Henrietta Leavitt, and Hildegard of Bingen
Mar 18
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‘Feminine Hands’: The Hidden History of Women in Medieval Book Culture
Monks Get the Credit. Nuns Deserve Some Too. Evidence from Their Manuscripts—and One Sister’s Teeth
Mar 14
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Wrestling Coach Bets on Tolstoy and Dante to Save the Classics—and Young Men
Joshua D. Phillips Blends Heavy Lifts and Epic Lit to Battle the Reading Crisis
Mar 11
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