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To answer your question: Yes, Lexi Freiman’s “The Book of Ayn” is about Ayn Rand, the bug-eyed author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.” The founder of Objectivism, which extols rationalism ...
This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Lexi Freiman’s first novel didn’t change her life the way she thought it ...
Lexi Freiman has the qualities of a great comic writer: She’s deeply skeptical, sparing no one, including herself; she doesn’t ruminate at the expense of good timing; and most of all, she understands ...
How much compassion is due someone who quite publicly hated the very idea of compassion? This question kept haunting me as I read Alexandra Popoff’s new biography of Alisa Rosenbaum, better known to ...
One of the most important intellectual relationships in the life of Alan Greenspan, the prominent former central banker who died Monday, was with author Ayn Rand, whose 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged has ...
The books of Ayn Rand, above in 1964, are still popular a half-century later. More than 25 million copies have been sold.LEONARD MCCOMBE / TIME LIFE PICTURES / GETTY She knew how to make an entrance.