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It’s always hard writing your first piece of the year. But with the upcoming inauguration, Luigi Mangione, the ramifications of illegal immigration I see behind my home in New York, the safety of our public transportation system... I know that I am witnessing an avoidable decline. That our political expectations are embarrassingly low. And that we’... See more

Reggie James • Political Expectations

The executive editor of the most influential literary agency in the US said he could not risk his relationship with the paper, on which he depends for reviews and publicity for his authors. Publishers who are brand names in the industry balked. Even freelance designers and editors refused to work on the book, saying it was not a risk they could aff

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

you likely know his classic children’s books on animals going rogue ( Stuart Little , Charlotte’s Web ).

E.B. White • Here is New York (1949)

Know Where You Are

Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture

then mayor Dick Riordon got the 10 back on line after the Northridge quake a full three months ahead of schedule. He even issued curfews and no one gave a rat’s ass. They loved him.

Scott Frank • Shaker: A novel

Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

P.J. O'Rourke

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Now: the second-best of times.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Keep small, vote mainstream, and nod like it all makes sense. Yet here she is, asking for trouble. Acting like what she does might matter.