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You know what they say: a semiquincentennial happens only once, but great American literature is forever. Whether we can all agree on what makes a novel a great American one is another story (considering we can’t agree on much these days). To me, Curtis Sittenfeld’s…

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What is law and where does it come from? Several years ago at Harvard Law School, where I am a professor, L.G.B.T.Q. student groups reported that at an event that hundreds of students attended, a student made “patently homophobic and transphobic comments…

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Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. This week, to commemorate two hundred and fifty years of the American experiment, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi…

In April, 1782, a ship called the Hyder Ally cast off from the docks of Philadelphia for a mission into the Delaware Bay. The previous year, the British general Charles Cornwallis had surrendered, at Yorktown, to the combined might of the Continental Army…

In late November, 2024, when the Chinese-born billionaire Justin Sun first invested thirty million dollars in a speculative crypto venture linked to Donald J. Trump, then the President-elect, it looked more or less like a bribe. Shortly before winning the…

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At the Great American State Fair, in Washington, D.C., and at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Library, in North Dakota, the President casts himself as the rightful heir to American greatness.

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Cynthia Brown first heard about the terror of 1898 as a child in the mid-nineteen-sixties. Her parents had taken her to visit her great-grandmother Athalia Howe Whitfield (Grandma Thalia), a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, who by then was living in…

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We asked a range of luminaries who their favorite American is. The answers included scientists, playwrights, pop stars, bureaucrats—and one cartoon character.

In “Night Shift,” his first New York show in eight years, the photographer brings his travelling bacchanal home to the city’s streets.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding promised a kind of narrative closure for Swifties: after the pop star spent years singing about imagined weddings, her life was finally catching up with her art.

In 2009, every big hit sounded like a version of “I Gotta Feeling,” by the Black Eyed Peas.

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