Akhil Katyal talks about ways of grieving, the tricks of translation, and the quest for possible worlds in his new volume of ...

More than a hundred years ago, "The New York Sun” newspaper received a letter to the editor from an 8-year-old girl named Virginia O’Hanlon. In essence, the letter said that ...

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At a time when many Americans are on edge, it seems appropriate to revisit one of the best arguments for faith and hope, and ...

Two boys, one classic novel, and a lesson for the technology age: not all disinformation is dangerous.

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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” begins Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina. This ...

In the old days, all a kid wanted for Christmas was their two front teeth, and maybe something from the Sears Wish Book catalog like Spirograph or roller skates.

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