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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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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
Apr 6
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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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March 2026
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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Adam Smith for Dummies
Reviewing P.J. O’Rourke’s ‘On the Wealth of Nations’
Mar 9
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Don’t Know Jack About the Other C.S. Lewis?
Lewis Had 3 Careers: Novelist, Lay Theologian, and Scholar. Here’s a Look at His Most Ambitious Academic Project
Mar 7
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