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Witchcraft in West Africa; Julia Glass’s latest fiction; and more
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Patrick Hamilton’s exceptional, and overlooked, novels show that falling in love with the wrong person is misery—and it isn’t much fun for the wrong person either.
America’s most energetic art form owes its success to compulsive singability.
Forty years after the comic strip began, its commune-dwelling characters—Mike, Zonker, B.D., Joanie, and the rest—have moved on to Boomer adulthood. Their evolution offers a telling chronicle of the past four decades, and what it felt like to live through them.
As Johnny Knoxville and friends release their newest film, has everyone finally wearied of their absurdist, violent, and sublime daredevilry? Or is it now in our cultural DNA?
Jonathan Franzen’s juvenile prose creates a world in which nothing important can happen.
At the next Junior Eurovision contest, Europe’s most repressive regime will go pop.
A measured, sympathetic—and ultimately damning— portrait of the 20th century’s most wickedly funny novelist
Los Angeles modernism revisited; Alan Bennett's new memoir; the pain of fish; the final word on the Final Solution; and more
Cheesy, clichéd, and still strangely bewitching, soap operas are falling victim to their own bastard children.
On The Shining’s 30th anniversary, a visit to the hotels that inspired Stephen King’s novel— and the Stanley Kubrick film he scorned
A new crop of books suggests that for women, obsession with real estate is replacing obsession with love and marriage.
New fiction from Jane Smiley and A. L. Kennedy; the concise LBJ; Jung and Pauli’s cosmic convergence; and more
1st Amendment Champion Hugo Black Rebukes Team Obama From the Grave
If a Senate Candidate Chops a Watermelon with an Ax in the Woods, Does It Make a Sound?
Grizzly Puts Video Camera Into Its Mouth; Camera Keeps Filming
A Marriage Mystery: Why Aren't More Wives Outearning Their Husbands?
Why America's Falling Birth Rate Is Sensational News for the Pet Industry
Gruesome Attacks on Egyptian Women Spawn Helmeted, Volunteer Protectors
'On Average, Humanity Has Built One Large Dam Every Day for the Last 130 Years'
This Is the Biggest Mistake 60-Year Old Men Make About the Economy
The Amazing David Beckham Goal That Sent England to the 2002 World Cup
Good News: The Arrested Development Season 4 Trailer Is Quite Funny
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