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A Recently Discovered Poem by Raymond Chandler Published in “The Strand Magazine”

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Old Europe

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Matthew Walther’s Favorite New Books

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The End of "The Telegraph" and "Spectator" as We Know Them?

Ezra Pound’s Music

Best Books Lists

On Censorious Criticism

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The Art of the Series

On Returning Home

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Reading for Pleasure

Music Writing

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Not Quite the Real Stuff

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Shakespeare’s Everyday Relationships

The 8th Annual Poetry Reading at “First Things”

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Appliances and Modern Literature

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Nobel Prizewinners Past and Present

"Make It New" No More

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Leisure and the Liberal Arts

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Emily Wilson’s “Iliad”

The Book Ban Paranoia

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On Poetry Anthologies

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tyranny

Is Contemporary Culture Really That Bad?

About that Woke James Bond Novel…

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The Poetry of Ernest Hilbert

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Is Art Criticism Too Positive?

The Pulitzer Prize May Redefine What It Means to Be an “American Author”

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Against Therapy-Speak

Stop Trying to Save Honey Bees

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Remembering Keith Waldrop

In Praise of Print

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A Scrappy Defense of the Novel

A New Populist Broadsheet on American Life and Art

Why Do Some Poets Sound Like Middle-Aged Mothers Trying to Get Their Kids to Eat Too Much Cooked Meat?

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Why Are So Many College Students Claiming Disability?

All the “Barbie” Hot Takes

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A Few Thoughts on W. H. Auden’s Line “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen”

Artificial Intelligence and Intentionality

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Fall Books

Criticism Today

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That Patricia Lockwood Essay on David Foster Wallace

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On Rereading Eric Ambler

Camus in New York

On Invention and Imitation

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Georges Bernanos and the Writer’s Task

Aristotle as Self-Help Guru

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Against Angelism in the Alps

In Austria and Switzerland

Messy Reality

How Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Discovered Microorganisms

The War on Disinformation

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Nancy Lemann's "Lives of the Saints"

Talk in 16th-Century Switzerland

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The Postrationalist Turn

Remembering Martin Amis

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Boring Art

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Literary Births

Lord Byron and the Elgin Marbles

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Introducing Prufrock's Fiction Columnist

A New History of Central Europe

Are We Living in a Golden Age of Literary Criticism?

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Those ALA Book "Bans"

Hilma af Klint's Originality

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The First Folio at 400

Charles Frazier’s Disappointing Novel

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A History of Fatigue

The Origins of the English Parish

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Hermann Burger's Last Novel

Attention!

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Summer Books

The Life of a Modern Pilgrim

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“There Will Be Blood” at 15

How English Works

The Poetry of "First Things"

David Chipperfield’s Approach to Architecture

Against Equity Language

Nationalism and the Decline of English Studies

The Ethics of Writing

Musical Paintings

Cormac McCarthy’s Style

The Stranglehold of Relevance

What Ken Burns’s Holocaust Series Gets Right—and Wrong

First Lines

In Praise of Prickly Professors

Is It “Morally Bankrupt” to Never Read Books?

Against Learning Styles

Longing for a World without Bodies

Childlike Reading

Michel Houellebecq on Euthanasia

The Real Problem with New MLK Statue

The Integrity of Poetry

An Unconvincing Defense of Just Stop Oil

Thanatos in Canada