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"Twenty-five years ago a secretary made a mistake and a letter of recommendation that should have gone to a fellowship program got sent directly to my house."

A born-again Christian on her relationship with the world's most famous church.

In her famous essays on the Sixties and Seventies, Joan Didion surveyed a society on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Now, more and more, critics are re-reading what she wrote.

Julia Hahn graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in philosophy in 2013. her current title is "special assistant to the president."

Critics of subtitles have protested that they seem stuck onto films where space wasn't made for them, as if they need to atone for defacing the movie by doing their business as quietly and modestly and unobtrusively as possible.

If alcoholism is truly a disease, why is the default treatment a spiritually oriented support group run by nonprofessionals?

Every year, three thousand people gather in Kalamazoo for the sake of the years 400 to 1400 (approximately) of the Common Era.

Decluttering is en vogue these days, but there is still merit and meaning to our stacks of books and objects.

This is the most facile statement you hear from people [when they talk about privacy]: "I've done nothing wrong; I've got nothing to hide." It is "the lyrical dream of the transparent glass house."

Throughout an unlikely championship run in the 2014 NCAA men's basketball tournament, they called themselves the "Hungry Huskies." Leading the way for the University of Connecticut was Shabazz Napier, a senior from Roxbury, Massachusetts who dominated last year's March Madness with his aggressive play on both ends of the court. Eventually named the tournament's […]

In the dog days of August, two books about the Ivy League landed comfortably on the New York Times bestseller list. One was William Deresiewicz's Excellent Sheep. The other was Lev Grossman's The Magician's Land. Despite their disparate genres, the nonfiction tract ends up in fantasy, while the escapist entertainment roots itself in reality—and both are invested in the […]

Never had yoga been so big and never had it been so empty. Had America robbed it of its soul?

In this portfolio of curated texts and visual material, D. Graham Burnett and Mark Dion — who shared a studio for a year while each working at the intersection of artistic practice and the history of science — juxtapose a collection of telling historical quotations with images that evoke collective fantasies of rational inquiry into nature.

The rise and fall of Lance Armstrong is not simply a story of one man's moral failures. To understand Armstrong you have to understand the people who use their money and power to shape the culture of competitive sports. And if you follow the trail of money and power in this particular case, it will lead you to Thomas Weisel, which is where the real story begins.

What if Nietzsche were a police officer in present-day New Orleans? More than any of his specific ideas, this is the question "True Detective" explores through Rust.