Bach at the Burger King
When the music of Vivaldi and Mozart are used to repel the homeless from sidewalks and Burger Kings, does it still glorify the dignity of humanity?...
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Whose University Is It Anyway?
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Elio’s Education
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Rebel Yale: Reading and Feeling “Hillbilly Elegy”
It is his refusal to speak directly about “issues” that makes J. D. Vance the new pundit for white people....
The Great Attention Heist
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The Age of Acceleration: An Interview with Martin Amis
Tools for Tots: On Alexandra Lange’s “The Design of Childhood”
A Literary Lineup for the World Cup
Max Eastman: From Left to Right
Being There
Breaking Out of Narrative Prison in Debra Jo Immergut’s “The Captives”
A Gift to Our Spirit: On Wasting Time
Left Mountebanks: On Agnès Poirier’s “Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–1950”
“Don’t Take Away the Flavor”: Exploring the Here and Now of L.A. with Lynell George
The Hazards of Good Fortune, Part VII
A Love Letter to Wild Bees
Hard Stands
The Vigilante Style in California Politics: At a Symposium in the Central Valley, Devin Nunes and Militia Hero Ammon Bundy Tap into a Deep Well of Agrarian Rage
The Echoes of That Era: An Interview with Jake Tapper
Rock of Ages
Dylanizing the Great American Songbook
Hate Speech: An Imaginary Debate
The Cow Whisperer
Melancholic Mythologies: “Half Gods” and the “Mahabharata”
The Cost of War: Parts and Labor
