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Just Don’t Call Her a Ghostwriter

Walter Bernstein, scriptwriter who skewered McCarthy-era blacklist in ‘The Front,’ dies at 101

Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished.

Looking at History Through the Deadly Conflicts Over Territory

Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster

‘Everybody Loved Blake, Except His Wives. Sometimes, We Hated Him.’

An Artist Whose Comics Tell Us What It’s Like to Be Depressed

Bagpipes for a Bard’s Birthday

Aubrey Gordon, the writer behind ‘Your Fat Friend,’ has some thoughts on diets, BMI and the relentless advice of strangers

The Ethics of Adoption in America

In our dreams, a theater of the unconscious