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Are books getting bigger even as attention spans continue to shrink and sentence lengths shrivel? Well, maybe. Boris Kachka, for one, thinks…

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We know attention spans have been shrinking for decades. It has something to do with television. It’s also been often observed…

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Over at the Washington Post, music critic Chris Richards asks why there is such a bland critical consensus surrounding the biggest…

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Just as with most sectors of the economy, rich writers are getting richer and the rest are falling behind. At…

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Over at the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks wonders whether we’ve reached a point where there are too…

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Are paper books, the kind you don’t read on screens, making a comeback? Not quite, but . . . Public…

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