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The Children’s Books That Changed Our Lives
They say kids don’t read anymore. So we asked our staff to recommend the books that defined their childhoods.
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Living Through the Fall of a Regime
Historian Dominic Green on ‘The Leopard’ and elite corruption.
Shilo Brooks
1HR 3M
Read This Book Instead of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’
Ryan Holiday unpacks the philosophy of ‘The Moviegoer.’
Shilo Brooks
1HR 1M
Things Worth Remembering: How to Ask Timeless Questions
When I first read I.B. Singer’s ‘Gimpel the Fool,’ I felt a door swing open—into faith, doubt, and a kind of storytelling I didn’t know was possible.
Joseph Epstein
Illegally Yours, Keith McNally
Before Balthazar, before my Green Card, before I had any success at all—New York showed me that charm and nerve could beat out class and pedigree.
Keith McNally
Will AI Erotica Make Us Less Lonely, or More?
‘Our community is amazing,’ says the founder of Janitor AI, where 15 million users can build erotic fantasy worlds with AI companions.
Evan Gardner
George Orwell’s Lessons on the Class Divide
Why the rich and poor struggle to understand each other.
Shilo Brooks
1HR 1M
Scott Galloway on the ‘Mating Crisis’
‘My purpose is to raise loving, patriotic men.’
Will Rahn
Margaret Atwood vs. the Real World
A new memoir from the author of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ exposes the gap between her prophetic reputation and her real-world predictions.
Kathleen Stock
What ‘The Great Gatsby’ Taught Fareed Zakaria About America
The journalist discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald soon after immigrating from India.
Shilo Brooks
59M
Two Drinks with. . . the Greatest Living Magazine Writer
You’re not well-dressed unless you wear a hat, according to Gay Talese. And you should keep in mind what will be written in your obituary.
Joe Nocera
How Thomas Sowell Transformed Coleman Hughes
And how Sowell’s best book explains what drives our political divides.
Shilo Brooks
58M
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