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Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unknown Territoryby Cressida Leyshon

A discussion with the author about her most recent novel, “The Lowland,” and the reading and writing she’s been doing since she finished the book.

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The Devil You Knowby Casey N. Cep

Why is C. S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters,” a little novel about the quotidian temptations of the common man, so wildly popular?

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The Novel That Mailer Didn’t Writeby Richard Brody

He was one of the most powerful authors of the twentieth century, but he never attempted the book that he was born to write—the bildungsroman of a boy in nineteen-thirties Brooklyn…

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Orpheus Through the Agesby Kate Bernheimer

From pederast to French bohemian to Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi time-traveller.

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The Man Who Forgot Everythingby Steven Shapin

An operation robbed Henry Gustav Molaison of the ability to form new memories. It also made him perhaps the most important patient ever studied in neuropsychology…

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Head Countby Elizabeth Kolbert

Fertilizer, fertility, and the clashes over population growth.
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The Norman Invasionby Louis Menand

The crazy career of Norman Mailer.
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The New Curiosity Shopby James Wood

Donna Tartt’s talent for magical misdirection.

Murder by Poisonby Joan Acocella

The rise and fall of arsenic.
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The Book of Laughterby Claudia Roth Pierpont

Philip Roth and his friends.

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