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On the Death of Branwell Brontë and the Shadow of Grief It Cast Upon His Literary Family

Deborah Lutz Considers the Impact of a Brother’s Absence
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When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train

Lerone Martin on Segregation Aboard the Southern Railway
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Ocean Vuong: Photographer First, Writer Second?

Sarah Moroz on a Recent Exhibition of the Poet-Turned-Novelist Who’s Always Had a in Camera Hand
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Happiness is Within Reach! And Other Fragments of Ancient Greek Wisdom

James Romm Translates Classical Greek Poetry

Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

By Lucy Sante

A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka

By Maïa Hruska

When Biography Goes Delulu: Writing the Life of Superstar Astrologer Linda Goodman

By Courtney Ann LaFaive

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

By Michael Auslin

On the Early—and Unlikely Friendship—of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By Jim Rasenberger

A Complex Yet Crucial Chemical: Exposing Myths About Dopamine

By Masud Husain

What We Can—and Must—Learn From the Burning of Pacific Palisades

By Jonathan Vigliotti

Is It Even Real? On the Conflation of Money and Things

By J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev

William Kentridge: That Which I Have Drawn

By William Kentridge

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Why Writing Stories For Children is So Much Harder Than Writing Stories For Adults

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How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

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On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy

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“No One Talked.” On Growing Up Under Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

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Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine

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What Objects Can—and Should—Reveal About Their Owners

By Rachel F. Seidman