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Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln

American Loneliness

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The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them

Andy Serkis on Animal Farm, Authoritarianism, and Humanizing Monsters

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Open Thread

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Emergency! and the Legalization of Paramedic Services

The Quintessential Politician of This Era

Conway’s Game of Life, the Universe, and Everything

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Man Sues Alleging Brother-in-Law's Autobiography Book Jacket Summary "Whitewashes [Author's] Life Story"

Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

Open Thread

Young John Berryman revered the elder generation of poets. By 1947, though, he diagnosed “a deadly and vacant period” in American poetry

Skill nostalgia

In Praise of the World Cup’s Little Guys

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Bolaño envy. Is Latin American literature, in its totality, more important than literature produced in the United States?