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Below the Surface

Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach imagines a shadow world—on land and beneath the waves

…straightforward, traditionally plotted historical novel buttressed by exhaustive and painstaking research, and its prose, pitch, and pace are carefully calibrated to match its historical milieu. Photo: Pieter M.Van Hattem The…

Rights and the Right

Nancy MacLean talks with Chapter 16 about “the deep history of the Radical Right’s stealth plan for America”

…political economy has “the same purpose and effect” as that of John C. Calhoun, the antebellum South Carolina U.S. Senator who, until Buchanan, was America’s most original theorist of how…

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