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Ross Douthat’s Serious Fantasy

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Sophie Lewis’s Case Against Feminism

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From Mishima to Mangione

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The Novels That Made Us

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Love in the Time of Menopause

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Sally Rooney’s Crypto-Christian Love

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The First Great Covid Novel

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Joy Williams’s Beautiful Apocalypse

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Rachel Cusk’s Cruel Misandry

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Honor Levy’s Half-Brilliant Adderall Prose

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Art-Making in a Disenchanted Age

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Beyond the Victimhood Grift

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Why Tolstoy Didn’t Want You to Have Sex

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The Perils of Dissident Literature

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Dec 5, 2023

Literature at the End of the World

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Sigrid Nunez’s Lockdown Literature

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Oct 25, 2023

‘Cat Person’ as Viral Fairy Tale

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Emily Wilson’s Sack of Homer

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Aug 31, 2023

A Master Novelist Visits Hell

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Jun 29, 2023

Bach Was No Liberal Humanist

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Unguarded Angel

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Apr 18, 2023

The Anti-Humanism of Han Kang

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Mar 20, 2023

The Wages of Mother-Work

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Feb 28, 2023

Social-Justice Satanism

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Jan 17, 2023

American Non-Psycho

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Cormac McCarthy's Masterpiece

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Nov 9, 2022

The Booker Prize Rewards ‘Diversity’ Over Difference

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Against 'Kindness'

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The Reluctant Wokester

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Rural Erasure

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