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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligensia, 1880-1939.

PS Picks: John Carey’s ‘The Intellectuals and the Masses’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Surviving Racism

A Native writer struggling against the ignorance of white culture finds that her stories are her lifeline, her wounds are her power, and though the scales have been weighted against her in almost every way, there are many reasons to survive.

Terese Marie Mailhot

Dispatches: The Secret to Enjoying the AWP Writing Conference

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

Social Justice

Do Artists and Musicians Live Longer Lives?

Historical research from the Netherlands suggests they outlived other members of their socioeconomic class in past centuries.

Economics

Overwritten, Maybe, But Less Overwrought

Researchers mining a Google books database report a decline in mood-related words in English-language books over the past 100 years.

Economics

Why Writers Run

New Yorker editor Nicholas Thompson and staff writer Malcolm Gladwell have been bantering about running and the Olympics. In…

rare books

Social Justice

The Nobel and Literature’s Third Rail

No country is an island, a poet might say, but the insularity of the U.S. has raised some hackles.