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Slavery was foundational to Britain’s prosperity and rise to global power. Throughout the eighteenth century the empire’s epicenter lay not in North America, Africa, or India...

To the Editors: Marilynne Robinson’s essay “What Kind of Country Do We Want?” [NYR, June 11] is great on rhetoric as it pushes most of the...

One of the most difficult issues of the pandemic is when and how schools should reopen. Among the ironies of the situation is that parents who...

In the New Yorker, Sophie Haigney bids farewell to the presence of landlines in literature, which have made important appearances in the work of Vladimir Nabokov,...

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I met David Adjmi at a fancy writing residency. The kind of place where you work all day alone and then eat dinner together, have a...

Although socially distanced outdoor activities are certainly safer than indoor ones, this year a lot of people will be avoiding crowded beaches and packed seaside bars...

I’ll never forget riding in my mom’s car as a high school student in the late ‘90s, and hearing a male DJ on the radio introduce...

James Baldwin books entered my life three years ago. I was in the bookstore searching for new reads and spied a copy of The Fire Next...

Nearly two years have passed since the birth of my son and I still find that every day brings something new in my motherhood journey. Some...