The famously hopeful novelist’s move to dystopian fiction in The Circle.
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Mailer’s Mark
His writing turned out to be mortal. But in post–World War II American culture, he’s still a giant.
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Jezebel Grew Up
The website used upstart humor to teach feminism to a generation. Now it’s a media “influencer.”
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Don’t Kill Your Darlings!
The fact that you love them doesn’t mean they’re worthless. Maybe you’re right!
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Writing the Best Story that She Can
The Prospect talks with Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner and author of the recently published memoir, Men We Reaped.
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Royal Rumble: Academics vs. Film Critics
A Twitter tussle over Ben Urwand’s book The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler is emblematic of the battle being waged by popular critics and ivory-tower dwellers for control over the cultural narrative.
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The Conflicted Gay Pioneer
Donald Webster Cory’s 1951 landmark book, The Homosexual in America, inspired early activists. Then he disavowed its message.
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You’re Tearing Us Apart, Tommy!
Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s new book, The Disaster Artist, basks in the delightful weirdness of The Room and its chief architect.
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The Missing Piece in Coverage of Texas Evolution Controversies
We hear plenty about the young-earth creationists trying to keep students from hearing about evolution. But what about the moral culpability of the textbook publishers?
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The Conversation: What’s the Best Way to Die?
A doctor and a journalist wrestle with our health-care system’s troubled relationship with death.
