When Ann Manov was an undergraduate humanities student at the University of Florida at the beginning of the 2010s, Florida ...
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies, by Paul Fischer. Simon and Schuster. 416 pages. $28.99. On the morning of October 14, 1888, Louis Le Prince set ...
In 1974, my mother was twenty years old, trying to make it as a theater actress in New York after dropping out of Bennington College. She was in a painting class led by the eccentric Ukrainian-Jewish ...
On the morning before Yom Kippur late this past September, I found myself standing at the western end of the White House, watching as the color guard paraded the flag of the United States (and the ...
A Girl’s Story, by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer. Seven Stories Press. 160 pages. $18.95. A Man’s Place, by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie. Seven Stories Press. 96 pages. $13 ...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time, by Hilary Spurling. Knopf. 480 pages. $35. There are about four hundred named characters in A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-novel sequence that ...
When I was diagnosed with secondary myelofibrosis three and a half years ago, like many others in similar situations, I took serious stock. The past few years had been difficult: I had experienced a ...
Leave the two men stranded along the railroad tracks outside Chicago, not far from Michigan City, Indiana, during what would eventually be called the Great Depression, hunched together down in the ...
From an interview with the economist Branko Milanovic that was conducted by Alice Liu and published in April on Global Inequality and More 3.0, Milanovic’s Substack newsletter. alice liu: You’ve ...
I first read the Book of Revelation in a green pocket-size King James New Testament published by the motel missionaries Gideons International. I was in seventh grade. I remember reading the tiny Bible ...
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, by Jon Meacham. Random House. 416 pages. $20. The Soul of America, directed by KD Davison. HBO, 2020. 77 minutes. It’s the beginning of the new ...
Twenty-five years ago, the philosopher Richard Rorty accomplished something many writers aspire to but few ever pull off: he predicted the future. Toward the end of his 1998 book Achieving Our Country ...
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