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I Love Rent

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Given This Reality

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What comes together can come apart.

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Current issue, no. 81

The Hatred of Podcasting

Brace Belden

Talking has finished off writing

Speak and Sell

Sophie Pinkham

Ms. Rachel and the disappearing world of books

We Used to Read Things in This Country

Noah McCormack

The history of literacy is the history of class

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Tom Vanderbilt

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Ready for War

Eamon Whalen

Is Nick Fuentes the successor to Charlie Kirk?

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Mommy Dearest

Alana Pockros

Mary Bronstein’s feminist psychological thriller.

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The Family Loan

Kristen Martin

Student debt touches—and warps—every aspect of a person’s life.

Ready for War

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November 26

Mommy Dearest

Alana Pockros

Mary Bronstein’s feminist psychological thriller.

November 25

The Family Loan

Kristen Martin

Student debt touches—and warps—every aspect of a person’s life.

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A Philosopher After All

Daniel Petrick

Can imagination grant privileged access to truth?

November 19

That’s All, Volks!

Henry Luzzatto

The rise, fall, and rise again of right-wing separatism

November 18

American Psychos

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Stories of redemption in a time of damnation

November 14

The Politics of Humiliation

Richard A. Greenwald

Reading Robert Kagan in the midst of America’s nightmare

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We Want Everything

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Kay Gabriel’s politically urgent hedonism

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Water on the Brain

Steve Macfarlane

A conversation with Yasha Levine

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Crutches

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Give me the worst dog available.

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Three Moral Tales

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Writing short stories is an affront to time.

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