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An ungainly new biography by the German philosopher Thomas Meyer purports to situate Arendt in the context of her own era.

I’ve been an enormous Richard Russo fan for many years now. Russo has a gift for tragicomedy like few other American writers. But his latest novel left me cold.

Caro Claire Burke, the début novelist behind “Yesteryear,” on researching trad wives, wading into the discourse, and Anne ...

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