Random House Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/random-house/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Random House Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/random-house/ 32 32 The Netanya-who?s: Gossip and Other Kinds of History https://www.publicbooks.org/the-netanya-whos-gossip-and-other-kinds-of-history/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45127 Benzion Netanyahu—father of the former prime minister—is not the protagonist; rather, it is his scholarship and the practice of history itself.[none-for-homepage]

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]]> Can Tech Ever Be Good? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-tech-ever-be-good/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:00:16 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=38419 Companies like Uber and Airbnb rely on the exploitation of users and workers—and some investors are pushing back. Welcome to the “techlash.”

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]]> Can a Recipe Save Your Life? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-a-recipe-save-your-life/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:00:14 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=30054 A recipe can be more than a guide to making food. A recipe can be a mantra, a ritual, a symbolic stay against chaos in the psyche and in the world. A hybrid genre ...

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]]> Surrogacy Stories https://www.publicbooks.org/surrogacy-stories/ Tue, 07 May 2019 16:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28106 Midway through Mike Birbiglia’s latest one-man show, The New One, the ceiling above the stage opens and various baby paraphernalia cascade onto the stage floor. An oversized stuffed bear, a breast ...

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]]> On Our Nightstands: February 2019 https://www.publicbooks.org/on-our-nightstands-february-2019/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=26722 At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is ...

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