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There’s More Than One Way to Ban a Book

Stop Pretending All Books Are Written in English

There’s a Cure for the Anxiety of Email: It Starts With a Pen

Two Acclaimed Writers on the Art of Revising Your Life

Helen Keller and the Problem of ‘Inspiration Porn’

Writing for the Poor

Why We Crave Internet Justice

‘Some Version of the Apocalypse Is Inevitable’

The Future of Nonconformity

The Book That Changed My Life

Two Deaths and My Life

Elizabeth Wurtzel Was a Great Writer and a Better Friend

The Scandal of a Nobel Laureate

‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’

The Comeback of the Century

Sherwood Anderson’s Revolutionary Small Town

What Tolkien Knew About Love

Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee

Teen Fiction and the Perils of Cancel Culture

America’s War of Stories