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Claire McNear: Where Four Loko Art Thou?
Ross Barkan: The Two Cultures
John Byron Kuhner: The Horror of Unlimited Freedom
Caleb Caudell: Kill the Editor
Sophia Stewart: Rising from Her Verses
Dan Sinykin: The Invention of Close Reading
Megan Fritts: A Matter of Words
Trevor Cribben Merrill: Sleeping Through Life
Poppy Sowerby: When Did Meat Become Right-Wing?
Jeremiah David: The Hobo Handbook
Brian Allen Carr: Trap
Dana Gioia: A Cultural Vision for Conservatism
Mary Buchanan Sellers: On 'American Thighs'
Gabe Lacques: Carlos Santana, at 39, Remains Revered Teammate
Amy Weiss-Meyer: We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
Peter C. Baker: Is the Great American Novel On Substack?
Alex Weprin: Creators Are Building Their Own Studio System
Jacob Phillips: The Decline of the Great Literary Name
Neeraja Deshpande: Woke Universities Could Lose Talent to Red States
Multiple authors: Criticism and Free Expression in the University
Alessandra Bocchi: Say No to the Grind
Keturah Hickman: I Found Freedom in Bland
Dan Hitchens: Pope Leo’s Challenge
November 3, 2022It strikes me as odd that the opening of Edith Wharton’s 1913 novel, The Custom of the Country, rarely appears on those “best first lines in literature” lists...
