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

The End of the Blurb. Thank God.

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

Boycotting Israeli Culture Helps No One

TV Medical Dramas Have Pristine Endings. They Should Be Messier.

The Northern Lights I Did Not See

Reading and Protesting on Campus

Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable

Some Words Feel Truer in Spanish

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

The Year A.I. Became the User and We Became the Tool

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

Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf and the Political Upside Down

My Hope for American Discourse

Is Poetry Dead? Listen to the Poets.

The Romance Novelist Who Faked Her Own Death

What Has Happened to My Country?

Annie Ernaux Understands That the Past Is Never Simple

Hilary Mantel Was the Magician and the Spell

How to Find Out Who You Are