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On Grief and Growing Up in
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The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.
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After Six Decades and Thirty Novels Jodi Picoult Was Missing One Thing: A Tattoo

“With age comes the luxury of being unapologetically yourself. A silver lining, if you will, for the silver-haired.”
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Are Dating Apps the Last, Great Hope For the American Literary Journal?

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How Howard Zinn’s Hard Lessons in WWII Shaped His View of the World

Dave Zirin on the Political Awakening of One of America’s Great Historians

On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

By Florence Hazrat

Why I Hiked the Appalachian Trail Twice—30 Years Apart

By Earl Swift

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

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Chiang-rae Lee on Channeling His Immigrant Childhood Into Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari

Why Thoreau and Walden Resonate With Chinese Youth

By Julia Du

Reinventing the Slave Narrative: Ishmael Reed on Flight to Canada at 50

By Ishmael Reed

On Good Fat, Bad Fat, and the Problems With BMI

By Daniel Lieberman

Rebecca Solnit: When Penelope Tried to Spin Her Own Fate

By Rebecca Solnit

Everything But the Burden:
Greg Tate, John Henryism, and the Cost of Solidarity

By Steven W. Thrasher

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Inside the Rise of America’s Oligarch Class—And What It Means For All of Us

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Read an Original Review of All the King's Men on Its 80th Anniversary

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Ed Park is Reading Now, and Next

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On the Carceral Ideology Underpinning the Anti-Trans Movement

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As Hitler Loomed, Hannah Arendt Undertook a Deep Analysis of German Antisemitism

By Thomas Meyer

A Wealthy Donor to My University Just Silenced One of the World’s Leading Scholars of Genocide

By Emily Van Duyne

From Marquis de Sade to Grand Theft Auto, a Brief History of Depravity

By Daisy Dixon

Eight Books to Read If You’re Still Thinking About the Roman Empire

By Michelle Berenfeld

It’s Ok to Judge a Book By Its Cover (It’s Impossible Not To)

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