The campus novels (and movies) that get it right (and wrong)
The “campus novel” is one of the few things with the word “campus” in it that is beloved by many. (Did you love the “Campus Police” when they confiscated your… Read more »
Go ahead and bring those Howard Zinn books on your vacation, the TSA doesn’t care
Last month, we reported on a story that the TSA was going to start taking an interest in what books you were carrying in your luggage. A new federal airport… Read more »
Fake Art, Not War
Imagine you—a well-studied, discerning critic—watching the film Airplane! and mistaking it for a sequel to Airport 1975. That is, imagine mistaking the spoof for the original. In 1916, Witter Bynner,… Read more »
Zyzzyva and other pleasant and not-so-pleasant changes to the OED
Growing up in a very American family, I often had to listen to actual, bona-fide, real exhortations on America’s principal compendium of words, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. “Look at this fine pinnacle of… Read more »
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The Establishment
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A History of Money
Rules for Werewolves
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
The Dark Net
The Essential Heinrich Böll
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Melancholy Accidents
The Duke’s Table
The Jane Austen Rules
The Constitution Demands It
We, Robots
The Day the Renaissance Was Saved
Sophia
La Femme de Gilles
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
The Damned Utd
Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview
Patience and Fortitude
How to Do Nothing
Not on Fire, But Burning
The Quest for a Moral Compass
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview
Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview
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Why I Am Not a Feminist
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture
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Trainwreck
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Buenos Aires Quintet
Gnarr!
What We Do Now
The Dead
Cat Out of Hell
Half The Kingdom
Wittgenstein Jr
Ada’s Algorithm
The Next Next Level
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (Gift Edition)
Bolaño
The Philosophy of Beards
The Utopia of Rules
Spurious, Dogma, & Exodus
The North of God
Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview
Future Days
Contraband Cocktails
An Exaggerated Murder
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The Weirdness
