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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’s new Cultivating Thought: Author Series at Chipotle has a slightly uncomfortable name. It suggests that we Chipotle patrons had just kind of been sitting here, mowing down our lunches, blankly existing, uncultivated,...

Let’s do this! After the boring procedural stuff. I’ll pick books 4-6 months in advance. This should give everyone time to get your copy from the library if you are not buying the books. Full disclosure: I will be linking to the books using...

Staff AAR decries Amazon’s treatment of authors; the British Library unveils a new online collection; Ian McEwan’s archive heads to Austin; and other news. Page 1 This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets...

Staff The forgotten life of H. T. Tsiang; the Strand’s book quiz; an e-mail correspondence between Jonathan Safran Foer and Natalie Portman; and other news. Page 1 This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers...

Karl Marx, in Critique of the Gotha (1875), famously described the utopia of communism as a society of “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need(s).” As he envisioned it, once society has changed to communism, via a workers’...