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The War on Disinformation

Also: Swiss anarchist watchmakers, a day in the life of the 18th-century Bank of England, and more.

Jun 5 •

The irony of “decolonization,” making it as a writer in New Orleans, what we know about Plato, and more.

Jun 3 •

May 2023

Nancy Lemann's "Lives of the Saints"

Also: A history of English marsh making, the life of medieval minstrels, too much Kafka, and more.

May 31 •

Talk in 16th-Century Switzerland

Also: The problem of color, Robert Browning’s prosody, and more.

May 29 •

William F. Buckley’s travel writing, the most charming Stoic, Langston Hughes’s children’s book, and more.

May 27 •

The Postrationalist Turn

Also: Amis's style, bizarre numbers, Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City" reviewed, and more.

May 24 •

Remembering Martin Amis

Also: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s papers, the search for the Giant Palouse Earthworm, and more.

May 22 •

Nancy Lemann goes on a safari, the Supreme Court rules against Andy Warhol, 19th-century black populism, and more.

May 20 •

Also: Farming in 18th-century Sussex, American minimalism, literary nuns, and more.

May 17 •

What the 1619 Project missed, the windows of St. Paul’s in Philly, the return of the cassette tape, and more.

May 13 •

Literary Births

Also: Thomas Merton’s final days, Francis Marion Crawford’s “Saracinesca,” the mind of Christopher Dawson, and more.

May 10 •

Lord Byron and the Elgin Marbles

Also: The Windsors at war, the dream of fusion energy, the failure of the Spanish Armada, and more.

May 8 •

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