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May 16, 2025Lamb Early in The Novelist, the narrator reflects on Kirkegaard’s idea of the real novelist. Did you ever arrive at a certain life-view or unifying life-task for the...
April 10, 2025The study hall in my high school was a large open area with beige desks lined in a row. Fluorescent lights dumbly hummed over the linoleum floors and trapped me in between....
February 27, 2025In recent years, author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has been a singularly incisive commentator on cultural trends at the intersection of religion, politics,...
February 3, 2025As a teen, the distance between the present and future was mysterious and unbreachable. Parental appeals to the future didn’t work. “Think of the future,”...
