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Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.
Our secular ideas about guilt and absolution distort the language and values of Christianity.
The animation industry was perhaps the United States’ most potent cultural weapon during World War II.
1900–1950 was a golden age of literary eccentricity.
Robert Pirsig’s insufferable cult novel about philosophy and bike maintenance turns 50.
A look back at the work and impressively productive life of Brooklyn’s most famous resident, Paul Auster.
A look at the ten nominees for this year’s Best Picture Oscar.
Nietzsche warned us about the dangers of defining our values in opposition to something else.
A new book celebrates Springsteen’s stark 1982 classic, ‘Nebraska.’
The cold allows me to feel alive.
Classical education instills precisely the skills and habits most sorely needed in society today.
Peter Benchley’s ‘Jaws’ turns 50.
In the seventeenth instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how The Society of Jesus became a powerful player in the colonization of North America.
In ‘American Fiction,’ director Cord Jefferson brings a devil-may-care effrontery to bear on the culture of self-censorship, progressive pieties, and artistic hypocrisy.
In the seventh instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes how disparate Hunnic tribes coalesced into the unified force that would terrorize Europe.