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Rarely has a book been so lavishly applauded as Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me was in 2015. The book fetched gushing reviews, admiring interviews in prestigious media, won eminent literary prizes, and almost instantly landed on high school and college required reading lists all over the country. The book’s rapturous reception, as I

Have you ever thought about how Westerners’ tastes in pornography provide a critical lens into the “ethical consensuses of our liberal age”? If so, you are not alone. While I can’t say that such an analysis has ever crossed my mind, Alexandre Lefebvre is with you, examining in Liberalism as a Way of Life that

“The American Dream is not my story,” writes Jessica Hoppe. If anything, she writes in her new memoir First in the Family, the idea of the American dream has held her back. Hoppe describes her parents’ journey from Honduras and Ecuador to the United States, her family’s journey from dysfunction to stability and her own

In 1979, you could turn an alley corner in Nashville and find the Greatest Country Singer Ever living in his car surviving on alcohol and hillocks of cocaine. At under 100 pounds, George Jones would be trying to keep his diet of junk food down, talking to his two alter egos. “The Old Man” would