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Some writers like John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and William

Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

Something has gone wrong with the last best hope of earth. Americans know it—the whole world knows it. Something has gone wrong out there, too.

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

“The American,” he writes, “was an individual first, nothing second.”

Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction

To survive, pluralistic societies require citizens who can look across difference and show the kind of understanding that is a prerequisite of trust—who

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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

For both Baraka and O’Hara, the tone and texture of intimate conversation was an aesthetic of resistance.

Eula Biss • Having and Being Had

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.

Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

It may possibly be that acuity and taste in choosing which Deciders one submits to is now the real measure of informed adulthood.

David Foster Wallace • Both Flesh and Not: Essays

So the writer has responsibility to be fair to the subject, who trustingly and perhaps unwittingly delivers words and story into the writer’s control.