Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.
Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.
In “The Imagined Life,” a writer searches his home state and his buried memories for answers about his long-lost father.
In “The Imagined Life,” a writer searches his home state and his buried memories for answers about his long-lost father.
In “I Seek a Kind Person,” Julian Borger tells the riveting story of seven children who escaped wartime Austria thanks to a British newspaper.
In “I Seek a Kind Person,” Julian Borger tells the riveting story of seven children who escaped wartime Austria thanks to a British newspaper.
Whether fueled by magic or advanced technology, imagination is the engine of speculative fiction. This newsletter brings you the best of fantasy, science fiction, and everything in between. Monthly.
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His work pushed the boundaries of political cartoons, expanding the possibilities of illustration everywhere.
His work pushed the boundaries of political cartoons, expanding the possibilities of illustration everywhere.
“Searches,” by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.
“Searches,” by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.
In “Lower Than the Angels,” the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces two millenniums of libidinal frustration.
In “Lower Than the Angels,” the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces two millenniums of libidinal frustration.
“The Proof of My Innocence” starts as a political whodunit but soon expands into a collage of literary genres.
“The Proof of My Innocence” starts as a political whodunit but soon expands into a collage of literary genres.
Sayaka Murata’s novel “Vanishing World” envisions an alternate universe where artificial insemination is the global norm, and sex takes a back seat.
Sayaka Murata’s novel “Vanishing World” envisions an alternate universe where artificial insemination is the global norm, and sex takes a back seat.
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Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders of his native country.
The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist.
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