This July will be the two-hundred-fiftieth birthday of the Declaration of Independence, but for me, the far more notable occasion is the fiftieth anniversary of the great and glorious bicentennial ...

Christopher Hooks on “Dubya’s Texas,” the White House UFC fight, and his plans for celebrating 250 years of America ...

Desire to Revive Samuel Moyn’s essay “The Old Guard” [May] convincingly makes the case that the United States is under a gerontocratic spell, one that sidelines new ideas and the… ...

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Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine, by Jonathan Haslam. Harvard University Press. 368 pages. $29.95. The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and ...

How to explain to her daughter. Back when she was in college, she had taken a literary seminar for which she’d had to read Kafka’s “Letter to His Father.” After the class had discussed it, the teacher ...

A Girl’s Story, by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer. Seven Stories Press. 160 pages. $18.95. A Man’s Place, by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie. Seven Stories Press. 96 pages. $13 ...

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In 1973, when Barry Singer was a fifteen-year-old student at New York’s Yeshiva University High School for Boys, the vice principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein, stopped him in a stairwell. Claiming he ...

Some people lament the disappearance of the spotted owl from our forests; others sport bumper stickers boasting that they eat fried spotted owls. It appears that books, too, are a threatened species, ...