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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Remember What It Was Like to Have a President Who Actually Reads? (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I recently got back from several days of road-tripping around Maine with an old friend, an interlude of clam-shack lunches and daily quests for the best ice cream in whatever town we visited. Then my friend flew home, and it was time to return to my usual meals of salads and grilled chicken breasts, which made me feel like a kid forced to go back to school after summer vac
Another Civil War Would Be Bad. A New Book Imagines Something Even Worse. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The world, as Americans tend to forget and then relearn, can change in an instant, and with that, whatever life you planned to live in it. This instability has been an abiding theme in Emily St. John Mandel’s novels, from Station Eleven, her portrait of the nation after a pandemic kills off most of its population (adapted as the HBO miniseries of the same title in 2021), t
When My Sister’s Addiction Killed Her, I Turned Into a Manic Detective. It Turns Out I Wasn’t Alone. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Nadia Bowers was pregnant when she got the news in July 2015 that her older sister, Sasha, had been found unresponsive in her car in the parking lot of a restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut. Later, she learned that Sasha, who had struggled with addiction for years, died of a fentanyl overdose. Bowers’ grief soon turned to pursuit. She experienced a powerful drive to find
A New Book Has Been Called “the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century.” It Really Is a Masterpiece. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. All of the action in Marlon James’ epic, immersive, and devasting new novel The Disappearers (already hailed in the New York Times as “the novel of the decade and possibly of the century thus far”) radiates out of a single, horrifically violent event. In 1988 a group of gay men of various ages and backgrounds gather in a house in Kingston, Jamaica, to rehearse a play about
A Riveting New Book Tells the Story of the Man Who Made Donald Trump (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I gobbled up every page of Kai Bird’s American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, and I’m not sure how I feel about that. Bird, as he explains in the book’s acknowledgments, has considered himself “a biographer of the American establishment,” writing about such dimly remembered figures as John J. McCloy and McGeorge Bundy, as well as winn
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