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Books Divide Us, but They Can Also Heal
Differences Are Inevitable—But Censorship Is Not the Only Response
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September 2023
‘A People Born of Trauma and Miracle’
Biography Bigger than One Life: Reviewing ‘How Far to the Promised Land’ by Esau McCaulley
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Open Thread: Best Opening Lines?
Dickens, Orwell, Tolkien, Barrie, and Rowling Take the Top 5 Spots. Who Else Deserves a Nod?
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‘Simultaneously Very Funny and Deeply Worrying’
What the World Is Really Like: Nick Gillespie Talks Humanities, Free Speech, What Motivates His Journalism, More
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Unpredictable Futures: Bonhoeffer and Bots
With Poets Training AI It’s Worth Asking: What Makes Us Human?
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George Orwell: Terrific Writer, Terrible Husband
Do We Cancel? Reviewing ‘Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life’ by Anna Funder
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How to Survive an Apocalypse (Should You Ever Need To)
Bonus Classic Novel Review: ‘The Day of the Triffids’ by John Wyndham
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Bookish Diversions: Down the Memory Hole?
Not if We Can Help It: Tom Wolfe, Orwell’s Forgotten Wives, Jorge Luis Borges, Digital Preservation, More
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Resistance Is Not Futile: It’s How You Stay Sane
When the Asylum Runs You. Reviewing Ken Kesey’s ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’
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Protect Good Reading from Bad Schooling
Augustine, Jerome, and Montaigne on the Educational Virtue of Following Your Whims
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All the Authors We Forgot Along the Way
C.S. Lewis’s Bad Prediction, Finding Zora, Losing Ursula, Saving Gatsby, and What Publishers Can Do
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‘Who We Are Depends on Who’s Watching Us’
A Provocative Question: Reviewing Peco Gaskovski’s Sci-Fi Thriller, ‘Exogenesis’
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