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Harold Bloom and the American Canon from Emerson to Toni Morrison

What Is American Conservatism?

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#GlobalGwen initiative celebrates Gwendolyn Brooks and a literary milestone

“How to be a man who’s not a jerk”: Cartoonist Chris Ware on Charles M. Schulz, Mr. Rogers, and Beethoven

Silliness, small stakes, and a compelling other world: Jonathan Franzen pays homage to Peanuts

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Kate Bolick: “Feminism is common sense,” and other truths from Little Women

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Adam Gopnik: The secret behind John Updike’s productivity

Gabrielle Bellot: James Baldwin as “a prophet of love” in If Beale Street Could Talk

Revisiting Portnoy’s complaints, 50 years later, with Bernard Avishai

Madeleine L’Engle on A Wrinkle in Time: “It’s for people”

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Remembering Tom Wolfe, New Journalism pioneer and champion of literary realism, 1930–2018