Reading Lolita on Epstein Island
The Epstein emails are crawling with Humbert Humberts
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George Saunders goes supernatural
The writer’s new novel Vigil suffers from its ambition
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Love in the time of AI
Young people are turning to AI chatbots for relationships they can’t find in the real world
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The dark side of the Enlightenment
Capitalism is far from the only extractive force in human history
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Syria, from the Ottomans to al-Qaeda
The country is still haunted by a long and fractured past
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Chomsky against Foucault against Dworkin – who cares?
Ideas overpower meaning in Sophie Ward’s packed novel
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Female depravity isn’t feminist
Saratoga Schaefer’s Trad Wife is trying to make a political point about domestic submission
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The mystery of Heathcliff’s race in Wuthering Heights
Is Jacob Elordi too white? Would Emily Brontë care?
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