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Dennis Lehane - Between Dorchester Ave and Sunset Boulevard

Posted February 13, 2014

Dennis Lehane so rules the neighborhood of Noir (“Nwaaah,” as we say in Boston) that he gets street credit for work he didn’t write, like...

John Lanchester on London in the Age of Inequality

Posted February 10, 2014

Economic inequality is still on our minds after

A Flailing State: Daron Acemoglu and Matt Taibbi on Economic Inequality

Posted February 6, 201400:48:07

We’re somewhere between the legend and the facts of the U.S. economy. The legend, still in our heads, is it’s a rough-and-tumble...

Reading Chekhov III: “Gusev”

Posted February 6, 201400:52:19

Each one of Anton Chekhov’s short stories, like each of Beethoven’s string quartets, can feel like a fresh experiment. They all seem different in...

From the Archives: Orhan Pamuk and his Museum

Posted February 3, 2014

On the way to Herbie Hancock’s opening...