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Knausgaard: The New Novel Thing
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle is sweeping the world in six volumes and 3,600 pages. It’s the novelized memory of a mostly ordinary...
Our Worst War
Legendary journalist Seymour Hersh helped us count the ways. Hersh returned to Vietnam this year for The New Yorker to visit the scene of the My Lai...
The Making of Xi Jinping
Evan Osnos writes about international affairs for The New Yorker. On the occasion of a recent profile, we're speaking about the "ruthlessly pragmatic"...
Can China Lead?
The People’s Republic has arrived and is applying for co-trusteeship of the globe. We got a good look at the co-trustee, China’s enigmatic...
The Rebirth of A Nation
The question we didn’t quite nail in this conversation was: how did the Lincoln Republicans blow the victory they’d won on the battlefield?...
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