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A Week in Culture: Eric Banks, Part 2

This is the second installment of Banks' culture diary. Click here to read part 1. DAY FOUR 12:30 P.M. I put in a few bets in advance on the Saratoga card and head for the eye doctor to get new lenses...

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Helen Simpson on ‘In-Flight Entertainment’

Helen Simpson. Photo by Derek Thomson. I met Helen Simpson for a genial pub lunch near Dartmouth Park in North London on the day she received the American edition of In-Flight Entertainment: Stories....

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Book Shopping with the Best-Read Man in America

We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! I was dragging my five-year-old daughter through the musty...

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We’re Both Dippy Over Him, and Other News

Gee whiz! If you’ve been listening to pop music your whole life, you might think that love is a many-splendored thing, subject to the vicissitudes and vagaries of the human condition. You would be...

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The Art of Unpacking a Library

The home library of William Randolph Hearst.   I would argue that public libraries, holding both virtual and material texts, are an essential instrument to counter loneliness. I would defend their...

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A Week in Culture: Eric Banks, Part 2

This is the second installment of Banks’ culture diary. Click here to read part 1. DAY FOUR 12:30 P.M. I put in a few bets in advance on the Saratoga card and head for the eye doctor to get new lenses...

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Helen Simpson on ‘In-Flight Entertainment’

Helen Simpson. Photo by Derek Thomson. I met Helen Simpson for a genial pub lunch near Dartmouth Park in North London on the day she received the American edition of In-Flight Entertainment: Stories....

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Book Shopping with the Best-Read Man in America

We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! I was dragging my five-year-old daughter through the musty...

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We’re Both Dippy Over Him, and Other News

Gee whiz! If you’ve been listening to pop music your whole life, you might think that love is a many-splendored thing, subject to the vicissitudes and vagaries of the human condition. You would be...

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The Art of Unpacking a Library

The home library of William Randolph Hearst.   I would argue that public libraries, holding both virtual and material texts, are an essential instrument to counter loneliness. I would defend their...

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Writing Is a Monstrous Act: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz

Novelist Hernan Diaz. Photograph by Pascal Perich. Money talks—so goes the truism—but rarely is it the subject of fiction. “Class? Sure. Exploitation? Absolutely. Money? Not so much,” Hernan Diaz...

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