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A Brief History of Secession

Why Calexit might not be as crazy as you think

Essays

A Brief History of Secession

Why Calexit might not be as crazy as you think

ARTICLES

On Political Correctness

Power, class, and the new campus religion

Interstates

How My Italian-American husband ate his way into the good graces of my African-American family

The Cloistered Books of Peru

A convent in the Andes is home to a treasure trove of rare, and possibly unique, early volumes

Keeping Faith

After a loss from which there is no recovery, I turned to books—not for solace or forgetting, but simply to survive

The Ultimate Pawn Sacrifice

My brother’s life mirrored that of Bobby Fischer, the deeply troubled chess master

On Political Correctness

Power, class, and the new campus religion

Interstates

How My Italian-American husband ate his way into the good graces of my African-American family

The Cloistered Books of Peru

A convent in the Andes is home to a treasure trove of rare, and possibly unique, early volumes

Keeping Faith

After a loss from which there is no recovery, I turned to books—not for solace or forgetting, but simply to survive

The Ultimate Pawn Sacrifice

My brother’s life mirrored that of Bobby Fischer, the deeply troubled chess master

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

(Full Disclosure)

Conflicts, more or less of interest

poetry

anniversaries

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fiction

commonplace book

Book essay

Found in Translation

A poet learns how to feel and see and think and sound in the language of his adopted home

book reviews

More Than Human

The dawn of a technologically enhanced super-species is upon us

Robocops and Robbers

Criminal justice in the age of digital spying and surveillance

One Nation Under God

The contentious role of Christianity in politics

“Time to Plant Tears”

An intimate biography of one of the 20th century’s great poets

Taking Old Abe to Task

A historian’s uncommonly grim view of the Great Emancipator

Travels in Literary Time

A writer’s excursions beyond mere archives