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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The novelist Henry Miller once observed that “a book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you.” If ...

If you haven’t seen the 50-minute conversation between actor Eric Dane and screenwriter/producer Brad Falchuk called “Famous Last Words” on Netflix, I recommend that you wrap yourself in a snug ...

Sometimes it seems funny how things go, but often, if one looks hard enough, one can see why. In 2020, elaborating Giorgio Agamben’s pandemic perspectives, one of the two authors of Nihilist Communism ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...