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What good is one of the communist thinker’s most important texts to 21st-century readers?

What good is one of the communist thinker’s most important texts to 21st-century readers?

“Mansfield Park” continues to complicate the writer’s legacy 250 years after her birth. Lauren Groff explains how the novel’s dark themes and complex ironies help keep Austen weird.

“I read them the way that people surf the internet today, maybe,” says the Wilco frontman, whose new memoir is “World Within a Song.” “So I know everything.”

In “Elaine,” Will Self conjures a 1950s housewife who bears a striking resemblance to the woman who raised him.

These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.

In books and articles he wrote about the militarization of space and believed that investing in exploration would ultimately “protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.”

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.