All Essays

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  You Say the Swimming Pool’s Half Empty, I Say the Swimming Pool’s Half Full

  Swimming pools, movie stars.

  Geoff NicholsonApr 18, 2012
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  Who Invented Chaplin's Tramp?

  It wasn't Chaplin they cheered, of course; it was the Tramp.

  Jon BoorstinApr 18, 2012

• Jerry Stahl on Historical Fiction & Memoir

  Apr 16, 2012
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  Denise Hamilton on Damage Control

  Apr 16, 2012

• Mark Haskell Smith on David Mitchell

  Apr 15, 2012

• Janet Fitch on her new novel.

  Apr 10, 2012

• Aimee Bender on Nonfiction

  Apr 10, 2012
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  Video: Student Critics Review a Few Books

  Clara Mokri, Grace Slansky, Rachel ConwayApr 10, 2012
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  Leo Braudy on the Hollywood Sign

  Apr 10, 2012

• Cecil Castellucci

  Apr 2, 2012

• Schickel on Biography

  Apr 2, 2012

• Seth Greenland on Adaptation

  Apr 2, 2012

• Laila Lalami on Hope

  Apr 2, 2012
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  Kind Buds

  On two new books about the culture of marijuana.

  John LinganApr 2, 2012

• Simon Reynolds is interviewed by Andy Zax, II

  Apr 1, 2012

• Simon Reynolds is interviewed by Andy Zax, I

  Apr 1, 2012