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In 1943, mourning the end of a short-lived love affair that would leave her (even months later) sitting “desolately by the fire shivering uncontrollably with an aching head and...

How I Became a Knausgaard Truther Casey N. Cep, Pacific Standard Mommy Police With Real Handcuffs Megan McArdle, BloombergView On the (Very Smelly) Trail of the Skunk Takeover Christopher...

Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry Lorraine Daston, The Point Israel at War with Hamas and Itself Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic Despite Dementia, a Life of Art Continues...

Alice in Borderland Charles Foran, The Walrus The News is Born Julianne Werlin, Los Angeles Review of Books Remembering My Friend Chris Mitchell Wesley Hill, Books & Culture Divine...

The State of the American Dog Tom Junod, Esquire And Now: The Criminalization of Parenthood Radley Balko, Washington Post The Culture Warrior in Winter Tiffany Stanley, National Journal Books...

God Lives on Lemon Street Scott Cheshire, Harper’s Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy Joshua Rothman, New Yorker In Defense of Fanny Price Tara Isabella Burton, Paris Review Carrie White...

Vatican Says There Will Be No “Two Popes Final” for the World Cup The Straits Times ‘Human Props’ Stay in Luxury Homes but Live like Ghosts Drew Harwell, Tampa...

How Evangelical Christians Do Money: On Tithing Ester Bloom, The Billfold Holy Relics: A Brand Parody T-Shirt Martyn Wendell Jones, Christ & Pop Culture I See Dead People Alizah...

Quitting the Cancer Battle D. G. Myers, Good Letters Know Nothing Michael Robbins, Slate Beyond Belief: A Journey to Antarctica Chris Jones, Afar Better to Marry Than to Burn...

For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story Taylor Swift, Wall Street Journal The Worst Tree in the World Casey N. Cep, PSMag Enon Chapel: London’s...

The Right to Be Wrong Ryan T. Anderson, Public Discourse Ground Down to Molasses Dave Byrne, Boston Review Odysseus: Patron Hero of the Liberal Arts Eva Brann, The Imaginative Conservative...

Praying for Radiation Ashley Makar, Whether Magazine Reading Lessons of a Religious Upbringing Without Modern Books Sarah Perry, Guardian Part Sendup, Part Anxious Self-Portrait: “Friendship” And The New Brooklyn...

Opera is Not Just Our Most Expensive Noise Roger Scruton, Standpoint Belted, Booted and Buckled: B-Movie Title Design of the 1960s Ben Radatz, Art of the Title Explaining Canada...

Opinion: Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Opinion Analysis: Does the New Religious Exemption Go Far Enough? Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog The Republic...

A century later, why does Chaplin still matter? Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club Faking Galileo Massimo Mazzotti, Los Angeles Review of Books American Idol James T. Keane, America Consider the...