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‘Why Does God Keep Making Poets?’

In the heat of the summer, this slow curve of the midyear, I find myself wanting to pause and catch…

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Mary Ann Hoberman, Who Tantalized Young Readers With Rhymes, Dies at 92

She wrote whimsical tales about the little things in a child’s life. “A House Is a House for Me” won…

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‘It Requires Genius and He Had It’: Readers on Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy’s death inspired hundreds of people to share their impressions of him and his work.

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To Truly Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine

Find a print issue, preferably more than 20 years old, and read it cover to cover. You’ll find the old…

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What I’m Reading: Summer-Snobs Edition

Tales of status, those who have it and those who want it, are on my list.

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What to Know About California’s Reparations Efforts

A conversation with Kurtis Lee, a New York Times economics correspondent covering the state’s reparations task force.

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Charles Frazier Wants You to Wait Before Reading the Classics

What books are on your night stand? “In the Café of Lost Youth,” by Patrick Modiano; “Sleepless Nights,”by Elizabeth Hardwick;…

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Susanna Hoffs Has a Dollar Bill Signed by William S. Burroughs

What books are on your night stand? “Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius,” by Nick Hornby. “Lincoln in…

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For Easter, the Strangest Story Ever Told

In the not-so-distant past where 90 or 95 percent of Americans identified as Christian, it was hard for almost anyone…

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Red State, Blue State. Tight State, Loose State.

Political biases are omnipresent, but what we don’t fully understand yet is how they come about in the first place.…

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