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Who Chooses the Poems For the New York City Subway?

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The Story Behind Edward Hopper’s Iconic Painting, “Nighthawks”

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How to Find the Perfect Writing Soundtrack

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Tiny, Furry Friends: A Short History of Small Dogs in European Art

By Stephanie Howard-Smith

What Working in the Emergency Department Taught Me About Death

By Joanna Cannon

Embracing the Darkness: In Praise of Writing Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

By Kate Maupin

The Limits of Rationality: On Gulliver’s Travels at 300

By Ed Simon

How Becoming a Preacher Made Me a Better Writer

By Mindy Misener

Worth the Risk: On Daring to Choose the Writing Life

By Jung Yun

Jane Eyre’s Watercolors, Lily Briscoe’s Paintings, and The Problem With Writing About Art

By Rebecca Birrell

Mr. Prufrock Picks Peaches: On Finding the Poetry in Every Kitchen

By Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein

A Day in the Life of a Baby Tyrannosaurus Rex

By Riley Black

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How Poetry Can Explain the Role of Music in Medieval Literature

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Iconic Socialist Jean Jaurès Tried to Keep France Out of WWI. It Cost Him His Life

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Brandon Taylor on Writing About Black Art and Black Artists in America

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Hidden In Plain Sight: What It Meant to Unearth My Father's Decades-Old FBI File

By Aimee Liu

Maria Edgeworth: Early 19th-Century Celebrity Novelist and... Key Contributor to the Birth of Classical Economics?

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How Joe Biden and the National Democratic Party Paved the Way For American Fascism

By Jennifer Welch

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5 horror novels that take you to a cabin in the woods

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Folk Horror on Film

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All the Horror Fiction We've Recommended This Fall (So Far)

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Nicole Bedera on the Cornell 7, Title IX, and How Universities Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence

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Tanaïs Writes Their Drafts At Night and Revises During the Day

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How Joe Biden and the National Democratic Party Paved the Way For American Fascism

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What Our Views on Pubic Hair Reveal About Our Attitudes Toward Sexuality

By Judy Wearing

The Genocide in Gaza May Keep the Democrats from Regaining Congress

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Why Wikipedia is a Wonder of the Modern World—That We’ll Never See the Likes of Again

By Richard Cooke

Holiness and Hedonism: On the Contradictory Duality of American Power

By Thaddeus Russell

On the History of the Aes Sidhe, Ireland’s Seductively Dangerous Fairies

By Sarah Clegg