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THE NIMBUS, my debut novel—and one of The New Yorker's "best books of the year so far"—is out now. Find blurbs, reviews, and more at my website.

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Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times

Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times

ast September, seven months after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Yale historian Timoth…

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'The Left Edge of the Possible'

'The Left Edge of the Possible'

At the end of the eighties, the left wing of the Democratic Party was in bad shape. Democrats had lost five o…

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Inside the Democrats' Battle to Build Back Better

Inside the Democrats' Battle to Build Back Better

House progressives delayed the infrastructure bill to protect the rest of Biden's multitrillion-dollar agenda…

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The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea

The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea

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Benevolent Haze

Benevolent Haze

It was an old dream. In 1854, just after the peak of the gold rush, Ferdinand Ewer started a magazine, The Pi…

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Can Trump Really Speed Approval of Covid Treatments?

Can Trump Really Speed Approval of Covid Treatments?

Emergency-use authorizations, a formerly obscure corner of regulatory law, have become a centerpiece of the g…

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Annie Dillard’s Subject Was the Whole World

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Literary lives, like the lives of plants, follow many trajectories. Some bloom early. Some blossom late. Some grow in view of everyone, sending out shoots where all and sundry can watch them experiment. Others bide their time underground, husbanding resources and awaiting their season until they are good, ready, and ripe. Annie Dillard, who died last week, at eighty-one, did not literally emerge from nowhere.
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'Sorrowful Mysteries,' by Stephen Harrigan Original

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Nor were such apparitions unusual for anxious young Catholics, as Harrigan attests from experience. He grew up Catholic in 1950s Texas, and he remembers convincing himself that a railroad spike he found on the playground must have been one of the nails that crucified Jesus.
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‘The Left Edge of the Possible’

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At the end of the eighties, the left wing of the Democratic Party was in bad shape. Democrats had lost five of the six previous presidential elections. Four of those, including the three most recent, had been landslide defeats, with Republicans winning more than four hundred votes in the Electoral College. The 1984 election was a complete wipeout—Walter Mondale lost in forty-nine states—but 1988 had been possibly even more painful.
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