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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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Joel J Miller
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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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Joel J Miller
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Open Thread: Your Summer Reading?
What’s on Your List for the Sultry Months? Here’s a Look at Mine
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Joel J Miller
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Bookish Diversions: Not Done with Didion
Psychiatry Notes, Ethics of Posthumous Publishing, Among the Archive, More
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Joel J Miller
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6 Enjoyable Ways to Read Classic Novels (or Pretty Much Anything)
Intimidated? Distracted? Bored? Need Another Way In?
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Joel J Miller
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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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Joel J Miller
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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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Open Thread: Emotional vs. Intellectual Novelists?
George Eliot vs. Charles Dickens? Victor Hugo vs. Alessandro Manzoni? Henry James vs. Dostoevsky?
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Joel J Miller
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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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Joel J Miller
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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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Joel J Miller
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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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