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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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The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution
Fiction Is Fading, Kids Are Skipping, Parents Are Scrolling. What to Do?
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Holy Whiskers! That Curious Time Every Pope Wore a Beard
Smooth Operator: Pope Leo XIV Says Blessed Are the Barefaced, but Pontiffs Weren’t Always Hairless
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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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Why Build a Personal Library?
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Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
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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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Open Thread: Emotional vs. Intellectual Novelists?
George Eliot vs. Charles Dickens? Victor Hugo vs. Alessandro Manzoni? Henry James vs. Dostoevsky?
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Fragile Inheritance: How Free Speech Was Won and Could Be Lost
A Conversation with Jacob Mchangama on the Long History—and Uncertain Future—of Our Most Essential Liberty
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I Apologize in Advance: The ‘B’ Word
How Can a Word Be this Flexible? Let Me Count the Ways
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Message from Pope Francis: Read a Novel
The Late Pontiff’s Take on the Power of Literature for Secular and Religious Readers Alike
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Give Us Barabbas! We Are Barabbas!
Reviewing Pär Lagerkvist’s Classic, Nobel-Winning Novel ‘Barabbas’
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Questioning the Greatness of ‘Gatsby’
Is ‘The Great Gatsby’ Fitzgerald’s Masterpiece or, as One Critic Says, ‘Aesthetically Overrated, Psychologically Vacant, and Morally Complacent’?
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Whose Novels Are We Living In?
Is this Philip K. Dick’s World? What about Vonnegut, Percy, O’Connor, or Didion?
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3 Ways to Make New Stuff Happen
Lessons in Innovation from Buckminster Fuller, Martin Luther King Jr., Milton Friedman, and Sonny Rollins
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