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Reading Two Chapters of ‘The Great Gatsby’ Is Not Enough

‘My Problem Was Not With Grief With a Capital G. My Problem Was That Eric Was Dead.’

The End of the Blurb. Thank God.

A.I. Isn’t Genius. We Are.

62 Books ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Guests Recommended This Year

Boycotting Israeli Culture Helps No One

The Cipher at the Center of a Brilliant Spy Series

Reading and Protesting on Campus

Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable

The Long, Strange History of ‘Manifesting’

The Long, Strange History of ‘Manifesting’

The Unflinching Empathy I Learned as a Novelist Is What the World Needs

How Landscapes Shape the Way We Think

This Is Why I Hate Banned Books Week

What They Don’t Tell You About Getting Old

Shakespeare’s ‘Sublimely, Disturbingly Smutty Effect’ Must Endure

Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf and the Political Upside Down

America Is Losing Religious Faith

The Book Banners and I Have One Thing in Common

I Wrote a Book About the End of Dictatorships, and It Became a Best Seller in Russia