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Garret Keizer • The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin

In short, even though Kehr remains one of the most responsible of film critics, he also proves that one reason why he deserves this distinction is that he knows the value of irresponsibility—as his treatment of Russ Meyer’s Supervixens also demonstrates.

Dave Kehr • Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

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Jessica Bennett • Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace

Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein worries that there’s a social cost to exploiting the long tail. The more successful these personalized filters are, the more we as a citizenry are deprived of a common experience.

Ian Ayres • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

Twenty-five years ago Allan Bloom proclaimed a heresy: The supposed idealism of the 1960s was in fact a veneer hiding a new barbarism. He saw that our elite liberal culture has a very definite vision, however much it talks about diversity, multiculturalism, and the like: the relativism of moral truth. This anti-dogmatic dogma, he thought, is leadin... See more

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Nell Irvin Painter • Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

By escorting Olive Garden into the realm of acceptability, I’d revealed my belief that such a realm existed, and that I was one of its gatekeepers. True iconoclasm would’ve been my unqualified pleasure, but I couldn’t unqualify my pleasure.

Emily Mester • American Bulk: Essays on Excess

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Jean M. Twenge • Generations

was interested, as I had been for a long time, in the way black people ignite critical moments of discovery or change or emphasis in literature not written by them.