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The Amazing, Disappearing Johnny Carson
Carson pioneered a new style of late-night hosting—relaxed, improvisatory, risk-averse, and inscrutable.
by
Isaac Butler
via
The New Yorker
on
November 6, 2024
Unwavering
You can argue over whether Jimmy Carter was America’s greatest president, but he was undoubtedly one of the greatest Americans to ever become president.
by
Jim Barger Jr.
via
The Bitter Southerner
on
October 1, 2024
How a Mid-Century Paramour Became a Democratic Power Broker
Churchill weaponized her powers of seduction—but Pamela Harriman came into her own when she brought her glamour to Washington.
by
Margaret Talbot
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The New Yorker
on
September 16, 2024
What If Ronald Reagan’s Presidency Never Really Ended?
Anti-Trump Republicans revere Ronald Reagan as Trump’s opposite—yet in critical ways Reagan may have been his forerunner.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
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The New Yorker
on
September 9, 2024
Riding With Mr. Washington
How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction.
by
David Nicholson
via
The American Scholar
on
August 22, 2024
When Emily Dickinson Mailed It In
The supposed recluse constantly sent letters to friends, family, and lovers. What do they show us?
by
Kamran Javadizadeh
via
The New Yorker
on
August 21, 2024
The Brilliance in James Baldwin’s Letters
The famous author, who would have been 100 years old today, was best known for his novels and essays. But correspondence was where his light shone brightest.
by
Vann R. Newkirk II
via
The Atlantic
on
August 2, 2024
Trump Is Right About McKinley
“The most underrated president” was a model of successful governance in a world in flux.
by
Sean Durns
via
The American Conservative
on
August 1, 2024
Doodle Nation: Notes on Distracted Drawing
Humans have doodled for as long as they have written and drawn, but psychoanalysis began to imagine the doodle as a key to understanding the unconscious mind.
by
Polly Dickson
via
The Paris Review
on
July 17, 2024
How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV
The rules governing everything from “Big Brother” to “The Real Housewives” started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV.
by
Emily Nussbaum
via
The New Yorker
on
June 15, 2024
Donald Trump Didn’t Spark Our Current Political Chaos. The ’90s Did.
In ‘When the Clock Broke,’ John Ganz revisits the era of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot to find the roots of our populist moment.
by
Becca Rothfeld
via
Washington Post
on
June 13, 2024
When the Movies Mattered
Siskel and Ebert and the heyday of popular movie criticism.
by
Annie Berke
via
The Yale Review
on
June 12, 2024
The Prophet Who Failed
After the apocalypse that wasn’t.
by
Emily Harnett
via
Harper’s
on
May 24, 2024
The Wild Blood Dynasty
What a little-known family reveals about the nation’s untamed spirit.
by
Adam Begley
via
The Atlantic
on
May 14, 2024
Angels with Dirty Faces
How Keith Haring got his halo.
by
Zack Hatfield
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Bookforum
on
April 12, 2024
The End of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Marks the End of an Era
Larry David is the last of his kind—and in several ways.
by
Daniel Bessner
via
The Nation
on
April 8, 2024
Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About Whether Trump Is a Fascist
In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.
by
Andrew Marantz
via
The New Yorker
on
March 27, 2024
Glad to the Brink of Fear
A new biography reveals how Ralph Waldo Emerson gave Americans a vocabulary to understand themselves in an era even more tempestuous than our own.
by
Nicole Penn
via
American Purpose
on
March 13, 2024
A Bullshit Genius
On Walter Isaacson’s biographical project.
by
Oscar Schwartz
via
The Drift
on
March 12, 2024
The Brilliant Discontents of Lou Reed
A new biography examines the enigma of the musician.
by
Sasha Frere-Jones
via
The Nation
on
January 23, 2024
The Bernstein Enigma
In narrowly focusing on Leonard Bernstein’s tortured personal life, "Maestro" fails to explore his tortured artistic life.
by
Philip Clark
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 17, 2024
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The Problem With Comparing Today's Activists to MLK
Media coverage of the civil rights movement is a reminder that the deification of King has skewed public memory.
by
Hajar Yazdiha
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Made By History
on
January 15, 2024
Sports Illustrated's Forgotten Pioneer
In the Mad Men era of magazine journalism, Virginia Kraft was a globe-trotting writer and a deadly shot with a rifle. Why hasn't anyone heard of her?
by
Emily Sohn
via
Long Lead
on
January 14, 2024
Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter
The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.
by
Krithika Varagur
via
The New Yorker
on
January 12, 2024
Thicker Than Water: A Brief History of Family Violence in Appalachian Kentucky
Knowing I come from people who lived hard lives and endured terrible things is difficult. Knowing that I come from someone who ruined lives haunts me.
by
Angie Romines
via
New England Review
on
January 10, 2024
A Question of Legacy
Some of my ancestors had money, and some held awful beliefs. I set out to investigate what I once stood to inherit.
by
David Owen
via
The New Yorker
on
January 2, 2024
How Corporate America’s Obsession With Creativity Wrecked the World and Brought Us Elon Musk
Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.
by
Timothy Noah
via
The New Republic
on
December 30, 2023
Thunder in Her Head
A look into the life, art, and "wildness" of influential choreographer Martha Graham.
by
Jerome Charyn
via
The American Scholar
on
December 4, 2023
On the Sly
A memoir of the Family Stone.
by
Carl Wilson
via
Bookforum
on
December 4, 2023
Henry Kissinger, Who Shaped World Affairs Under Two Presidents, Dies at 100
He was the only person ever to be national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time. He was also the target of relentless critics.
by
Thomas W. Lippman
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Washington Post
on
November 30, 2023
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