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The Trump Administration’s Efforts to Reshape America’s Past
August 25, 2025
The Trump Administration’s Efforts to Reshape America’s Past
August 25, 2025

The New Yorker

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August 25, 2025
A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump
April 28, 2025
A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump
April 28, 2025

The New Yorker

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April 28, 2025
Introduction: Beatleland
December 6, 2023
Introduction: Beatleland
December 6, 2023

1964: Eyes of the Storm

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December 6, 2023
The Everyman Library
August 27, 2023
The Everyman Library
August 27, 2023

The New York Review of Books

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August 27, 2023
The View from Inside Beatlemania
June 10, 2023
The View from Inside Beatlemania
June 10, 2023

The New Yorker

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June 10, 2023
Counter-espionage
November 28, 2022
Counter-espionage
November 28, 2022

The New Yorker

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November 28, 2022
Squawk on the Wild Side
November 20, 2022
Squawk on the Wild Side
November 20, 2022

The New Yorker

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November 20, 2022
Bringing Up Babies
August 7, 2022
Bringing Up Babies
August 7, 2022

The New Yorker

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August 7, 2022
Moving Right Along
July 18, 2022
Moving Right Along
July 18, 2022

The New Yorker

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July 18, 2022
The Supreme Court’s Selective Memory
June 24, 2022
The Supreme Court’s Selective Memory
June 24, 2022

The New Yorker

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June 24, 2022
Easy Rider
May 23, 2022
Easy Rider
May 23, 2022

The New Yorker

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May 23, 2022
The Morning After
May 15, 2022
The Morning After
May 15, 2022

The New Yorker

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May 15, 2022
Why There Are No Women in the Constitution
May 4, 2022
Why There Are No Women in the Constitution
May 4, 2022

The New Yorker

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May 4, 2022
The Forest for the Trees
November 28, 2021
The Forest for the Trees
November 28, 2021

The New Yorker

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November 28, 2021
October Surprise
October 6, 2020
October Surprise
October 6, 2020

The New Yorker

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October 6, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Great Equalizer
September 18, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Great Equalizer
September 18, 2020

The New Yorker

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September 18, 2020
These Four Walls: Living Indoors
August 31, 2020
These Four Walls: Living Indoors
August 31, 2020

The New Yorker

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August 31, 2020
The Isolation Ward: On Loneliness
March 30, 2020
The Isolation Ward: On Loneliness
March 30, 2020

The New Yorker

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March 30, 2020
The National Emergency Library Is a Gift to Readers Everywhere
March 26, 2020
The National Emergency Library Is a Gift to Readers Everywhere
March 26, 2020

The New Yorker

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March 26, 2020
Don’t Come Any Closer: What’s at Stake in Our Fables of Contagion?
March 23, 2020
Don’t Come Any Closer: What’s at Stake in Our Fables of Contagion?
March 23, 2020

The New Yorker

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March 23, 2020
From Sea to Shining Sea
January 1, 2020
From Sea to Shining Sea
January 1, 2020

America the Beautiful: A Story in Photographs

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January 1, 2020
Ahab at Home: Two Hundred Years of Herman Melville
July 22, 2019
Ahab at Home: Two Hundred Years of Herman Melville
July 22, 2019

The New Yorker

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July 22, 2019
The Deadline: On the Lingering of Loss
July 1, 2019
The Deadline: On the Lingering of Loss
July 1, 2019

The New Yorker

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July 1, 2019
Misjudged: How Justice Ginsburg Overcame the Distrust of Feminists
October 1, 2018
Misjudged: How Justice Ginsburg Overcame the Distrust of Feminists
October 1, 2018

The New Yorker

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October 1, 2018
Sirens in the Night: How the Victims’-Rights Revolution Has Remade American Justice
May 14, 2018
Sirens in the Night: How the Victims’-Rights Revolution Has Remade American Justice
May 14, 2018

The New Yorker

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May 14, 2018
The Shorebird: Rachel Carson and the Rising of the Seas
March 19, 2018
The Shorebird: Rachel Carson and the Rising of the Seas
March 19, 2018

The New Yorker

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March 19, 2018
It’s Alive: Two Hundred Years of Frankenstein
February 5, 2018
It’s Alive: Two Hundred Years of Frankenstein
February 5, 2018

The New Yorker

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February 5, 2018
Valley of the Dolls: Barbie, Bratz, and the End of Originality
January 15, 2018
Valley of the Dolls: Barbie, Bratz, and the End of Originality
January 15, 2018

The New Yorker

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January 15, 2018
Dead Weight: The Burden of the Corpse
October 9, 2017
Dead Weight: The Burden of the Corpse
October 9, 2017

The New Yorker

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October 9, 2017
No, we Cannot
May 29, 2017
No, we Cannot
May 29, 2017

The New Yorker

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May 29, 2017

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