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Culture

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When novelists sober up

Writers who drink are old hat. But what about writers who quit drinking? Tom Shone has been studying them for his new novel …

WHEN

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Gladwell Hates Most In Anderson What He Fails To See In Himself

Gladwell Hates Most In Anderson What He Fails To See In Himself.…

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Sputnik Observatory For the Study of Contemporary Culture

Sputnik Observatory For the Study of Contemporary Culture.…

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A Literary Legend Fights for a Ventura County Library

“Libraries raised me,” Mr. Bradbury said. “I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When

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Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia

Mr. Aden, 37, is part militia commander, part schoolteacher, part lawmaker, part engineer, part environmentalist, part king — a mind-boggling combination of roles for anyone

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Why won’t feminists admit the pleasure of infants?

Why won’t feminists admit the pleasure of infants?. By Katie Roiphe.…

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Daylight Noir

Daylight Noir – Raymond Chandler’s Imagined City (by Catherine Corman).…

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The College Calculation

The most subversive question about higher education has always been whether the college makes the student or the student makes the college.

via The Way

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