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In the United States wets and drys are unable to agree about alcohol. In the Valley of the Nile it is water that keeps England and Egypt from coming to an understanding.

Maybe the publication of Ford County means that short stories are making a comeback.

It’s now clear that it’s not true that Goldman Sachs executives arming themselves against an uprising. But neither the news outlet nor author Alice Schroeder are talking.

For this market to work, it’ll take a great effort from both The Atlantic and Amazon. (Oh, and $3.99 for a short story? Really?)

Does the motivation behind my philanthropic giving matter? If so, is it wrong to give out of guilt?

The Original of Laura is an obviously incomplete work, shepherded and huckstered into the marketplace by Nabokov’s greedy son.

Five books that portray contemporary life in Afghanistan, providing a perspective that’s essential to understanding the war.

Alice Schroeder’s claim is being repeated by major media outlets around the world. But it seems awfully unlikely.

Levi’s needed to convince those who are about to jump the designer ship to buy their cheaper version. Their go-to was a man from the first generation of Brooklyn hipsters.

Allen Tate was heartened to see the inaugural issue of VQR. The Fugitive, the magazine he had helped found in Nashville in 1922, was struggling and would publish its final number in a matter of months. Tate was hopeful that VQR would...