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Percentage of Democrat-voting college students who would not go on a date with a Trump voter… ...

Portion of sexually active American men who would consider using hormonal contraception… ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I led a virtual discussion of War and Peace, with the thought that someone else might enjoy reading the novel with me. Three thousand people ended up ...

This month’s Letters section is devoted to remembrances of Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), the editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1976 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2006. I first worked for Lewis just out of ...

From the introduction to a new edition of By Night in Chile, a novella by Roberto Bolaño that was published in 2000 by Editorial Anagrama. The book was translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews and ...

From Mourning a Breast, which was published in July by New York Review Books. Translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley. Every fall, my friends and I get together to admire the lanterns of the ...

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The case of the vanishing movie involving a murder, a forty-year drug sentence, Liz Taylor's repossessed fur coat, and possible skulduggery at the highest levels. The author of a satirical fantasy ...

Our warmest congratulations to Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.