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Remember when high culture was revered? Louis Menand’s ‘The Free World’ made me nostalgic.

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Writing in Italian, Jhumpa Lahiri Found a New Voice

What Made Our Species Unique: Walking

The Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Gets Personal in ‘On Juneteenth’

‘Spite’ Looks on the Bright Side of a Dark Feeling

Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair

Every Coupling Depends on Lies, and Men Are Aliens

Nancy Pelosi: A study in power

Katherine Heiny’s ‘Early Morning Riser’ may be the funniest novel of the year

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief

A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage

They Always Had Paris — So He Went Back There Without Her