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On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.

Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.

Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”

A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.

Judith Long on Jane Sharples, Allison Kilkenny on the fight for Philly’s schools

In his writing and life, Thomas Bernhard led a charge in the opposite direction. His publisher always broke his fall.