A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects

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After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.

When I say "generative AI isn't going away," people hear "and you have to like it." You don't, and you might be right not to. But the is-ought divide here is real and we should all be preparing for both outcomes.

Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.

Is it ok to invoke Anne Frank in discussing kids hiding from ICE? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum disagree.

swordcrossed Now available from Tor and Bramble UK! A USA Today bestseller!A New York Times Best Romance of 2024An Indie Next pickA LibraryReads Hall of Fame pickA LitHub most anticipated book of 2024 Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his […]

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I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience.

I am still writing this, eight days after I started.

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On problematic feminists and what queer people are allowed to read.

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Patrick Lenton is the author of the book of short stories A Man Made Entirely of Bats, the book of comedic essays Uncle Hercules and Other Lies, and the full length short story collection Sexy Tales of Paleontology. Sexy Tales of Paleontology was shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award, 2022.

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…

To international visitors, red and yellow beach flags may look like a warning.

Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.

Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.

Adenoviral vaccines are widely used. We need to know why some people get deadly blood clots.

The ‘Scandinavian sleep method’ is having a moment on social media. But what is it? And will it stop you fighting over the doona?

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