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Zadie Smith Takes On the Pandemic

Lots of writers have done the coronavirus essay. Smith has made a book of them.

By Rumaan Alam

Charlie Kaufman’s Defense of Film

The screenwriter’s novel “Antkind” takes aim at the worst kind of critic.
By Ben Schwartz

Between Thomas Chatterton Williams and Me

On race, fatherhood, and the many uses of memoir
By Ryu Spaeth

The Problem With Putinology

We need a new kind of writing about Russia.
By Michael Kimmage and Matthew Rojansky

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The Shallowness of the Self-Aware Novelist

“Fear City” documents the 1970s mob in a familiar and increasingly unconvincing good guy vs. bad guy narrative.
By Josephine Livingstone

Donald Trump Has Permanently Changed the Publishing Industry

The business of bookselling is more political and partisan than ever before. Things won’t go back to normal after Trump leaves office.
By Alex Shephard

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