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Lessons From Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator: Never Lie, Tell the Truth, Repeat Repeat Repeat

Builders and Destroyers: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

On Self-Reflection, Stories, and and What Mirrors Really Tell Us

How to Write a Novel with Three of Your Friends

The Art of Adaptation: Camille DeAngelis and David Kajganich on Taking Bones and All from Page to Screen

Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

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“Let That Dream Die.“ On Watching Tennis and (Actually) Becoming the Best Writer You Can Be

Lynn Steger Strong: “Oh, Shit. I Wrote a Domestic Novel. I’m a Woman. What Did I Do?”

Alia Trabucco Zerán on Writing About Women Who Kill

What Japan Can Teach Urban Americans About Regenerating Rural Values and Practices

Our Man in Tokyo: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?

Why “Writing” Has Nothing to Do With Being a “Writer”

How the 2012 Murder of a Mexican Journalist Should Be a Warning About Press Freedoms in America

Reading Through the Midterms: Finding Bipartisanship with Books on the Front Lines of Democracy

Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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